A woman will face court next month following a serious crash involving a 65-year-old motorcyclist in the Southern Highlands.
Police say that at around 12.15pm on Saturday, emergency services responded to reports that a motorcyclist had been seriously injured after a collision with a car on the Illawarra Highway at Suttons Forest.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the rider – a 65-year-old man – at the scene before he was airlifted to Liverpool Hospital in a serious condition.
“Officers from The Hume Police District were informed the driver of the vehicle briefly stopped before driving away from the location. A crime scene was subsequently established that was later examined by specialist police from the Crash Investigation Unit,” NSW Police said in a statement.
“A short time later police located the vehicle travelling east bound – approximately 5km from the crash scene – where it was stopped.”
The 56-year-old female driver was submitted to a breath test that returned a positive reading.
She was arrested and taken to Southern Highland Police Station where a breath analysis returned a positive reading of 0.150.
Following further inquiries, the woman was charged with five offences including;
- Aggravated dangerous driving occasioning GBH – PCA
- Dangerous driving occasioning GBH – drive manner dangerous
- Negligent driving (occasions grievous bodily harm)
- Fail to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing GBH
- Drive with high range PCA
She has been granted conditional bail to appear at Moss Vale Local Court on July 18th.
Police have also suspended the woman’s driver’s licence.
