William Swale, who has type 1 diabetes, was severely hypoglycaemic 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.
At 5.42pm, Swale’s White BMW is captured in CCTV footage that shows the car stopping in the middle of Camp Street, near the Daylesford Bowling Club, a few hundred metres from the deli. The prosecution alleges Swale received – but disregarded – a string of alerts sent to his mobile phone warning him his blood glucose levels were low in the lead-up to the crash.
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”.Cohen said his patient told him after the crash that he didn’t receive any notifications at any time telling him his levels were getting low.
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. Vivek Bhatia and his son, Vihaan Bhatia , died at the scene, alongside friends Pratibha Sharma and her partner, Jatin Kumar . Sharma’s daughter, Anvi, died later in hospital. Ruchi Bhatia and son Abeer were seriously injured.
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