William Swale, who has type 1 diabetes, was severely hypoglycemic in the minutes leading up to the November accident, according to his doctor.
In the 23 minutes before driver William Swale ploughed into diners outside a Daylesford hotel, the BMW moved just 300 metres, his defence team says.
“We know at 5.17pm he apparently had a blood glucose level of 2.9, and at 5.18pm the hypoglycemic alarm went off on his monitor,” specialist endocrinologist Professor John Carter said. Swale’s diabetes specialist Dr Matthew Cohen told the court he’d been treating Swale for almost 30 years, describing him as a model patient.He said it appeared Swale had experienced an unusually rapid decline in blood glucose levels, with his readings around the time of the crash – less than 2.2 millimoles per litre – showing he was “virtually close to death”.
Swale is charged with five counts of culpable driving causing death, two counts of negligently causing serious injury and seven counts of reckless conduct endangering life after his car ploughed into patrons at the Daylesford pub. He was also using a continuous blood-glucose monitoring device, attached to his arm, which sent updates of his levels to his mobile phone.
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