Driver blamed deer after fatal crash, court hears

The Sundre man charged with dangerous driving causing death in a fatal crash, which killed a female friend, blamed a deer for the accident, court heard Monday.

Timothy Reeve said he arrived on the deadly scene of the June 23, 2012 crash moments after a Nissan 350Z left Hwy. 587, landing on its roof.

Reeve said about a minute earlier the same car passed his Ford truck at about 130 km/h.

At the crash scene, he discovered a male and female outside the car, with the woman on her back in obvious pain.

He asked the male, who he identified as accused driver Brendan Chase Wild, if he was injured.

“I said ‘are you all right?’” Reeve told Crown prosecutor Doug Simpson.

“He said something to the effect there was a deer,” Reeve said. “That was all the words I got out of him.”

Wild, 21, is charged with dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the crash which killed Amanda Harlos, 19, and injured Leah Shingleton.

All three were in the Nissan twoseater sports car when it left Hwy. 587, while travelling westbound toward Hwy. 22.

“When I got there, it was out in a field quite a distance. I was quite surprised it got there,” he said.

“There were two people that were injured and that were conscious and I looked over to the left and saw a couple of legs hanging out of the car,” Reeve said. “She was not moving.”