Father of teen injured in Andrews car crash says he does not want to meet Premier

THE father of a teen cyclist ­severely injured in a 2013 car crash in which the wife of Daniel ­Andrews was driving says he is not interested in meeting the ­Victorian Premier.

THE FATHER of a teen cyclist ­severely injured in a 2013 car crash in which the wife of Daniel ­Andrews was driving says he is not interested in meeting the ­Victorian Premier.

“It’s all history now, it was four years ago. It’s done and dusted,” Peter Meuleman said.

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He questioned why Mr ­Andrews had taken his children home a few hundred metres from the crash, after the ambulance and police arrived, before returning to the scene.

“I would think the decent thing to do would be to render assistance to any injured parties at the scene,” he told Channel 7.

Mr Andrews — who has been criticised for not speaking to the 15-year-old boy’s family — on Thursday opened up about the crash at Blairgowrie on January 7 that year, in a bid to quash “shameful” rumours of a cover-up.

He said the crash was “one of the most sickening, awful things” he had experienced.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has opened up about a crash at Blairgowrie in a bid to quash “shameful” rumours of a cover-up. Picture: AAP/Joe Castro

The Herald Sun on Thursday revealed the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission has requested police files relating to officers’ ­response to the incident.

Describing the crash, Mr Andrews said: “The young man on a bike ploughs into the side of the car. If he’d have been driving a car ... you’d ­adequately describe it as he T-boned our car. (He) couldn’t move, he was in terrible pain. The kids are screaming and crying, they have glass fragments all over them.”

Mrs Andrews was not breathalysed at the scene, which has raised eyebrows.

However, Mr Andrews revealed for the first time that a police member had apologised for that oversight after the crash was publicly revealed.

The officers who were at the scene have been disciplined and underwent further training for not following protocol.

Daniel Andrews and wife Catherine Andrews. Picture: Tim Carrafa

Mr Andrews maintained neither he nor his wife had been drinking when they were returning from the beach with their three children in the back.

He also used the opportunity to address other Spring St gossip surrounding the incident, including an alleged cover-up by United Firefighters Union members.

Mr Andrews said claims a secret recording was being dangled over him as the fire services pay and restructure dispute continued were “complete and utter nonsense”. ­

Allegations he was at the wheel were also shot down.

“There is a bit of stuff going around that perhaps Catherine wasn’t driving,” he told the media. “Well she was driving but I wish I had been ... then maybe she would be spared some of the quite shameful stuff being put around.”

The Herald Sun is not suggesting Mr or Mrs Andrews has done anything wrong.

Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton on Thursday defended his police officers who failed to breath-test Mrs Andrews.

“It was a scene that was a bit complex because there were significant injuries to the young fella,” Mr Ashton told 3AW.

“In that busy scene, one thought the other had done it and it wasn’t done.”

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