Jury hears girl’s cries for help after going under wheel ‘during doughnut’

IN a triple-0 call played to the court, the 15-year-old can be heard sobbing and screaming for help as she lies on the bitumen

Camden Wilkinson, 19, has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing serious harm. Picture: Supplied/Facebook

A JURY has heard the moments after a 15-year-old girl went under the wheel of a car at Casuarina Beach while the driver was doing a doughnut in a triple-0 call played to the Supreme Court.

Camden Wilkinson, 19, has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing serious harm following the incident in July last year that left the girl with serious injuries.

On the second day of the trial on Tuesday, jurors were played the triple-0 call front-seat passenger Lucas Camara made to paramedics as the 15-year-old lay on the bitumen sobbing and screaming for help.

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Mr Camara told the court Mr Wilkinson handed him the phone to make the call while he rang another friend who lived nearby.

“Camden wasn’t too sure what to say to the ambulance so he just gave the phone to me,” he said.

Mr Wilkinson sat in the dock with his head bowed for several minutes while the tape was played, in which the girl can be heard crying out in pain.

“Please help me, oh my God,” she is heard saying.

On the tape, Mr Camara can be heard describing the extent of the girl’s injuries while Mr Wilkinson applies pressure to a gash on her head.

“Someone’s been run over … her head’s bleeding … please come as quick as possible,” he said on the tape.

“We left one of the doors open while we were turning and she fell out.”

The court previously heard Mr Wilkinson later told police the girl “opened the door and got out” while he was reversing but under cross examination from defence counsel Julia Ker, Mr Camara denied this was a possibility.

“No, she had said the door was open,” he said.

On Monday, prosecutor Tami Grealy said it was the Crown’s case that the girl was climbing back into the car with the door still open when Mr Wilkinson started “reversing at speed, turning to do a reverse doughnut” causing her to fall out and under the wheel.

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“She recalls losing her grip and then blacking out, the next thing she recalls is waking up on the floor in the accused’s arms,” she said.

The trial continues before Justice Dean Mildren on Wednesday.