A driver’s trousers were undone when he got out of his car after it mounted the kerb and hit a woman pushing her baby in a pram, a Sydney court has been told.
Sera Ahmed said the driver was not wearing a belt, the zipper on his pants was down and the button undone.
Bryce James Wayland, 25, of Queenscliff, has pleaded not guilty to negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm in March last year on the Princes Highway at St Peters in Sydney’s inner west.
Wayland told police he mounted the kerb after his accelerator pedal became caught under a floor-mat.
Emma De Silva, 35, who was pushing her 19-day-old baby in a pram, suffered serious head injuries when she was hit by the Lexus sedan.
Giving evidence in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday, Ms Ahmed said she was driving when she saw a Lexus had hit a telegraph pole.
“I saw a lady on the floor as well as her pram with the baby inside and her dog,” she said.
She pulled over and saw the driver getting out with his trousers undone.
“He had his hand on his head, like in shock, and then did up his zipper,” she said.
She denied a suggestion from Wayland’s lawyer, Jim Young, that only the trouser button was undone telling the court: “I was there”.
Her passenger, Lauren Baldacchino, said the pram had come off the footpath and tipped onto the road on its side.
“Me and another lady, who was pregnant, we were trying to unclip the baby, which was really tough.
“I took the baby in my arms and concentrated on the baby.”
She said Ms Ahmed told her the driver “got out of the car with his pants undone”.
Wayland told police his accelerator pedal got caught under the floor mat.
“The vehicle kept accelerating and I tried to get the accelerator out by getting my foot underneath the pedal and flicking it out.”
Wayland said he was about to hit the back of a bus, then “I swerved to the left to miss it without looking”.
“I mounted the kerb and hit the telegraph pole.
“I saw the female just as I mounted the kerb and I hit her.
“I then hit the telegraph pole.”
Another driver, Noela Lambley, said she was in the middle of three lanes and the Lexus was in front of her before it went into the left lane and then came back.
Soon after she saw the car go into the left lane again and all of a sudden she saw the car knock down a no-standing sign.
“I saw him hit a woman in the back, flung her in the air,” she said.
“She was bleeding a lot from the head and she never moved from when she landed.”
The hearing is continuing.
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