Police charge a man with five counts of culpable driving causing death after a car hit a crowd of people at the Royal Daylesford Hotel in regional Victoria in November.
On Monday, Detective Sergeant Peter Romanis told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Mr Swale scanned his blood glucose monitoring device at 5:17pm, about 40 minutes before the crash.
The officer said it produced a reading of 2.9 millimoles of glucose per litre of blood, a level considered to be below a safe threshold.
“The accused received and ignored a further eight mobile phone alerts via a blood glucose monitoring app prior to the collision occurring,” Sergeant Romanis said.
Sergeant Romanis said Mr Swale was captured on CCTV entering a wine bar at 5:20pm and asking for a table, before returning to his vehicle.
He was seen driving his vehicle at 5:42pm and 5:44pm, and then at 6:07pm when he “lost control of the BMW” as it travelled down Albert Street, over a kerb and into the diners who were seated at tables on the grass reserve.
On Monday, Detective Sergeant Peter Romanis told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Mr Swale scanned his blood glucose monitoring device at 5:17pm, about 40 minutes before the crash.
The officer said it produced a reading of 2.9 millimoles of glucose per litre of blood, a level considered to be below a safe threshold.
“The accused received and ignored a further eight mobile phone alerts via a blood glucose monitoring app prior to the collision occurring,” Sergeant Romanis said.
Sergeant Romanis said Mr Swale was captured on CCTV entering a wine bar at 5:20pm and asking for a table, before returning to his vehicle.
He was seen driving his vehicle at 5:42pm and 5:44pm, and then at 6:07pm when he “lost control of the BMW” as it travelled down Albert Street, over a kerb and into the diners who were seated at tables on the grass reserve.