Police lay charges over crash that killed Qld footy legend Peter Roser
A young man is due to face court charged with dangerous driving causing death after he allegedly caused a crash that claimed the life of a well-known rugby league icon.
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A young man has been charged following the investigation into a two-vehicle traffic crash that killed beloved Darling Downs footy legend Peter Roser.
Police allege about 11am on October 10, 2023 an e-scooter and a Holden Commodore collided at Richmond Drive and Fitzpatrick Street, in Wilsonton.
The rider of the e-scooter, 61-year-old Rockville man Peter Roser, was declared deceased at the scene.
Following investigations by the Forensic Crash Unit, a 20-year-old Harlaxton man was charged with one count of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death.
He is expected to appear at Toowoomba Magistrates Court on April 29.
Mr Roser was well-known during his playing days with the Collegians Rugby League club in Warwick in the 1980s and was a member of Warwick Cowboys which formed to enter into the Toowoomba Rugby League competition in 1986.
At the time of his death, former coach and teammate Bob Bennett remembered the likeable larrikin as a tough and hardworking forward.
“Pete was known as ‘Tractor’ because he was slow but never stopped and he would plough through the line,” Mr Bennett said.
“He would never have made a winger but out there on the field he would take the ball up all day.
“When the going got tough, Pete would always yell ‘my ball’ and take it up time and time again.”
Mr Bennett and Mr Roser played the 1984/85 rugby league season in France with the First Division club Salon-de Provence.
“French football could be pretty violent at times and some of us would give it back but Pete never lost his cool,” Mr Bennett said.
“I remember one time they split his head open and we had to put on this sort of bandage on his head.
“They (the other team) ripped that off in the first five minutes but Pete just kept playing on and never retaliated.”
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