A Whakatāne man claims a medical event at the wheel may be to blame for a fatal crash that killed a nurse who had been treating White Island eruption victims, a court has heard.
Anthony Paul Jacobus McMillan, 54, appeared in the Rotorua District Court today for a case review hearing after previously pleading not guilty to a charge of careless driving causing the death of Sheila Bugden (nee Cheng) on December 14 last year.
He also faces four other charges of careless driving causing injury to William Kirk, Michelle Lee, Rhys Bugden and a child on the same day.
Bugden was killed in a head-on crash near Hells Gate on State Highway 30 after a day out to Rotorua.