A 21-year-old woman who hit and killed an elite Australian cyclist riding on a country road is accused of texting her boyfriend as she drove
and sending a message 68 seconds before the fatal collision.
Ms Rodda is to stand trial this year on a charge of dangerous driving causing death. She has pleaded not guilty but prosecutors allege her inattention at the wheel made her responsible for Mr Lowndes' death.The County Court this week heard Ms Rodda and her boyfriend exchanged 18 messages before the crash, including one that had a video attached to the message: "Ha ha ha.
Sixty-eight seconds after trying to send the message she hit Mr Lowndes on Sedgwick Road. At 10.16am she called triple zero after checking the critically injured cyclist. Defence counsel Rahmin de Kretser said Ms Rodda swore to police she wasn't looking at her phone at the time of crash, but instead had looked at her car's speedometer moments before. The court heard she was inattentive for between two and four seconds before impact.But Ms Coghlan said prosecutors didn't accept Ms Rodda was looking at the speedometer. She said Ms Rodda was inattentive throughout her drive that day, based on the number of text messages she sent and received.
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