Archive for June, 2005

June 30: Police inquiry `ad hoc’

The Advertiser: Police inquiry `ad hoc’ [30jun05] by Nigel Hunt
THE family of cyclist Ian Humphrey believes the police investigation into his death was conducted in an ad hoc manner with a lack of direction and urgency, the Kapunda Road Royal Commission has been told. In his closing submission, barrister Michael Birchall, who represents the Humphrey [...]

29 June: New York: Simultaneous Memorials for Four Cyclist Deaths

For more information visit: www.times-up.org
TIME’S UP! :: Press Release: Simultaneous Memorials for Four Cyclist Deaths
Silent Memorials in 4 Separate Locations Where Cyclists Were Killed Within the Last 2 Months
NEW YORK, New York — At 7:00 pm on Wednesday, June 29th, cyclists and volunteers with TIME’S UP! Environmental and Bicycle Advocacy group will initiate four separate [...]

From Service SA website – change to deadline

Kapunda Road Royal Commission
Important note: Written submissions for Terms of Reference 9 and 9A must be received by Commission staff no later than c.o.b Friday 1 July, 2005.
Commission Premises
Level 1, 26 Flinders Street
ADELAIDE SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8463 7971
Fax: (08) 8463 7988
Email: krrc@saugov.sa.gov.au
Extract from Terms of Reference:
9. You may include in your report recommendations arising from [...]

June 29: The Advertiser: McGee and brother may face charges [29jun05]

The Advertiser: McGee and brother may face charges [29jun05]
KAPUNDA Road Royal Commissioner Greg James, QC, is almost certain to recommend that lawyer Eugene McGee and his brother Craig face criminal charges for hindering a police investigation. Mr James said McGee had put himself “outside the law and evaded justice” and those who assisted him helped [...]

June 29: Hit-run lawyer ‘evaded justice’ but it’s not over | The Nation | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (29-06-2005)

Hit-run lawyer ‘evaded justice’ but it’s not over The Nation Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (29-06-2005) By Tom Richardson
THE vice is tightening on hit-run lawyer Eugene McGee, with royal commissioner Greg James QC declaring that the former police officer “put himself outside the law and evaded justice”.
As the Kapunda Road royal commission heard final submissions [...]

June 28: Doubt cast over blood testing considerations at McGee inquiry. 28/06/2005. ABC News Online

Doubt cast over blood testing considerations at McGee inquiry. 28/06/2005. ABC News Online
The Kapunda Road royal commissioner has been told he should reject a major crash investigator’s statement that he never turned his mind to the issue of blood testing lawyer Eugene McGee after a fatal hit-run in 2003.
Major crash investigator Sgt Dan Hassell has [...]

June 24: Letters to Cycling News

Sydney article: Response to the Daily Telegraph article

I was both interested and distressed at reading that The Daily Telegraph has written a negative story about cyclists (Cyclingnews 22/6/05). I was interested because this is not the first time that this publication has attacked cyclists (I can recall, in the not too distant past, Piers Ackerman [...]

June 26: Stateline South Australia: Four years on – the pain of a hit-run accident lingers.

Stateline South Australia: Four years on – the pain of a hit-run accident lingers.Broadcast: 24/06/2005 Reporter: Paul McCarthy
PAUL MCCARTHY: The flowers should have been for Carolyn Watkins’ wedding anniversary. They were still for an anniversary, but instead of June 22nd marking the happiest day of Carolyn’s life, it’s now the most tragic.
CAROLYN WATKINS: I baked [...]

June 24: The Advertiser: Officer’s calls to McGees `most unwise’ [24jun05]

The Advertiser: Officer’s calls to McGees `most unwise’ [24jun05] By NIGEL HUNT
THE actions of a senior police officer who rang lawyer Eugene McGee and his wife Barbara after McGee fled the accident that killed cyclist Ian Humphrey, were described yesterday as “unfortunate” in the Kapunda Road Royal Commission. While accident reconstructionist Sergeant Brian Mills did [...]

June 23: Policeman tells inquiry he quarantined McGee file. 23/06/2005. ABC News Online

Policeman tells inquiry he quarantined McGee file. 23/06/2005. ABC News Online
The major crash investigator in the Eugene McGee hit-run case says he kept a close guard on the case files to prevent other police from reading them. Sergeant Dan Hassell has told the Kapunda Road Royal Commission he took the files home so rumours and [...]