An expert review into the car crash involving Daniel Andrews’ family SUV and a teenage cyclist, commissioned by the cyclist’s family, has accused Victoria Police of engaging in an “overt cover-up” to avoid implicating the former premier.
Expert review into Daniel Andrew car crash that hospitalised teenage cyclist accuses Victoria Police of engaging in 'overt cover up' to protect ex-premier
According to police records, the vehicle was being driven by the former premier’s wife, Catherine Andrews, with the couple both insisting the vehicle came to a “complete stop” before turning right and being “t-boned” by Mr Meuleman’s bike. The 36-page review by Dr Raymond Shuey, the state’s former Assistant Commissioner for Traffic and Operations, claims the Andrews’ version of events is “improbable and implausible”, and concludes the police investigation in the incident – which supports the Andrews’ version of events – was “deeply flawed”, “unfounded” and “contrary to the available evidence”.
Premier Daniel Andrews' Ford territory car after the 2013 crash with Ryan Meuleman, Picture: Supplied “It was definitely not a high-speed bike impact against a slow speed vehicle – otherwise the flip motion of the cyclist would have been in a different and opposite direction to his actual trajectory,” the review states.
“Low speed impacts propel pedestrians and cyclists forward of impact. This impact was so severe, it flipped the cyclist … onto the bonnet, propulsion over the roof line and then sideways onto the roadway.”
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