Shane Douglas in Wagga Local Court after failing to help crash victims, including 9-year-old girl
Instead of stopping to help a woman and her nine-year-old daughter after crashing into them with his Commodore, this man ran from police.
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A RIVERINA man who was already before the courts for assault and stalking charges has been remanded in custody after failing to help a mother and her daughter when he crashed heavily into them during a high-speed police pursuit.
Batlow’s Shane Douglas Field appeared via video link in Wagga Local Court today when he pleaded guilty to the fresh charges of police pursuit, failure to stop to help after impact caused injury and driving in a dangerous manner.
Court documents state that about 9pm on February 8, police were patrolling central Gundagai when they were tracking Field in a black Holden Commodore.
The officers initiating a pursuit after the 41-year-old failed to give way at an intersection,.
“The Commodore was speeding well in excess of the signposted 50km/h limit,” court documents state.
He also went onto the wrong side of the road before police terminated the pursuit for safety reasons.
Minutes later, he crashed heavily into another car carrying a woman, 34, and her nine-year-old daughter.
Instead of helping the pair, who were suffering from shock, he ran off. Police could not find him but he handed himself into Tumut station the next day.
Field was already facing the charges of stealing a car, stalking, break and enter to commit a serious indictable offence and assault occasioning bodily harm. He also pleaded guilty to those charges today.
In March 2019, he grabbed his partner’s neck after a verbal altercation and told her “I’ll get you”, court documents state.
Bail was formally refused and an assessment report has been ordered.
The matter will return to Wagga Local Court on April 7 for sentencing.