Daniel Andrews is fighting a court order to turn over phone records from the day his truck collided with a teenage cyclist, leaving him seriously injured.
Ryan Meuleman was 15 and riding his bicycle in Blairgowrie, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, when he was hit by the Andrews family van on January 7, 2013.
The former Victorian premier, who resigned last year, was served a Supreme Court subpoena outside his home in March demanding he produce phone records.
Andrews has now hired prominent attorney Leon Zwier to fight the order, the Herald of the sun reported.
Andrews called Triple Zero at 1:10 p.m. on the day of the accident, while the collision is estimated to have occurred at 1:06 p.m.
Of particular interest is who Mr Andrews called four minutes after the crash and whether that included his then chief of staff, Brett Curran, who is the current deputy commissioner of Victoria Police.
Daniel Andrews is fighting a court order to turn over phone records from the day his SUV collided with a teenage cyclist, leaving him seriously injured.
Meuleman’s father, Peter Meuleman, questioned why Andrews was not complying with the court order.
“He’s just received an Order of Australia and yet he’s doing this,” he told the publication.
The matter will be heard in two weeks.
Mr Andrews’ wife, Catherine, was driving at the time of the accident, with their three children in the back seat.
In a formal statement given to police, Andrews said the cyclist was traveling at high speed when he crashed into their front windshield as they turned right onto a street.
“I want to make it clear: the cyclist collided with our vehicle,” he said.
Cyclist Ryan Meuleman, then 15, suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs and lost 90 percent of his spleen (pictured in hospital after the accident).
‘My wife stopped the car immediately and provided assistance and comfort to the cyclist.
“I immediately drove a few meters to the corner of Melbourne Road, called 000 and guarded against any car driving directly into the accident scene.”
Meuleman is seeking damages from the law firm Slater & Gordon, whom he hired after the accident, for allegedly failing to conduct a “full and adequate investigation of the circumstances” of the incident.
The then-teenager suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs, internal bleeding and lost 90 percent of his spleen, requiring a hospital stay for 11 days.
Meuleman has claimed that Andrews’ car was traveling at high speed and “came out of nowhere” when it was hit.
The Andrews family had been driving their Ford Territory SUV to their holiday rental on the Mornington Peninsula (pictured, with a damaged windscreen).
Police did not perform breathalyzer tests on anyone at the scene.
Mrs Andrews said she was driving the van at the time of the accident, but her husband then drove it away from the scene to take their distraught children to the family’s nearby rental home.
The police summary of their investigation reveals that they concluded the damage from the accident matched the Andrews’ account and said they would take no further action.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest any wrongdoing on the part of Mr Andrews or his wife.
