Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man in relation to a fatal collision in Powelltown earlier this month.
Police executed a search warrant this morning and arrested the 22-year-old Mooroolbark man. He’s been charged with:
– culpable driving causing death
– negligently causing serious injury
– dangerous driving causing death
– dangerous driving causing serious injury
– reckless conduct endangering life
– reckless conduct endangering serious injury
– driving in a dangerous manner
– driving at a dangerous speed
– careless driving
He was also given an immediate driving ban.
The charges follow an incident where two motorcyclists were allegedly travelling at high speeds east on Yarra Junction-Noojee Road on 8 January.
One of the riders, a 23-year-old Northcote man, was involved in a head-on collision with an unrelated motorcyclist, a 77-year-old Croydon man, who was travelling west about 1.30pm.
The 77-year-old rider was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries where he remains in a stable condition.
The 23-year-old rider died at the scene.
The 22-year-old Mooroolbark man, who was riding behind the deceased at the time of the collision, was not injured.
He was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 29 January.
