{"id":7073,"date":"2025-11-05T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:45:11","slug":"recklessly-negligently-cause-serious-injury-withdrawn-resolved-on-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=7073","title":{"rendered":"Recklessly\/Negligently Cause Serious Injury Withdrawn &#8211; Resolved on Dangerous Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7073\" class=\"elementor elementor-7073\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-293a6917 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"293a6917\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-453038c6\" data-id=\"453038c6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-744ab24 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"744ab24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><b>Case: Office of Public Prosecutions Wastes Resources Prosecuting Father For Riding Accident.<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f414c4f elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f414c4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our client was riding with his child on a minibike a short distance to his house to go to the toilet. He was distracted momentarily talking to his child and collided with a parked trailer. The child was injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e1ce55 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e1ce55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Charges\/ Ch1 (Recklessly Cause Serious Injury); Ch2 (Negligently Cause Serious Injury); Ch3 (Reckless Conduct Endangering Serious Injury); Ch4 (Drink Driving); Ch5 (Dangerous Driving); Ch6 (Careless Driving); Ch7 (Intentionally Cause Injury)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-974b0e9 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"974b0e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Result\/ Ch 1 to 4, 6, 7 withdrawn; Ch5 Plead Guilty (Dangerous Driving): 12 month Community Corrections Order<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6aec699 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6aec699\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the committal hearing the Magistrate discharged our client on recklessly cause serious injury and the reckless conduct charge on submissions by our barrister. We also argued that the police had failed to prove that there was a serious injury. Ultimately we sought judicial input and the judge agreed with our position and encouraged parties to resolve on a lesser summary charge.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case: Office of Public Prosecutions Wastes Resources Prosecuting Father For Riding Accident. Our client was riding with his child on a minibike a short distance to his house to go to the toilet. He was distracted momentarily talking to his child and collided with a parked trailer. The child was injured in the incident.\u00a0 Charges\/ &#8230; <a title=\"Recklessly\/Negligently Cause Serious Injury Withdrawn &#8211; Resolved on Dangerous Driving\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=7073\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recklessly\/Negligently Cause Serious Injury Withdrawn &#8211; Resolved on Dangerous Driving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108,65,43,143,142],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results","tag-careless-driving","tag-dangerous-driving","tag-drink-driving","tag-negligently-cause-serious-injury","tag-recklessly-cause-serious-inury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}