A Northland man has been charged with six counts of reckless driving causing injury after a horror high-speed crash that left a mother and her 4-year-old son fighting for their lives.
The 31-year-old Moerewa man is also charged with failing to stop to ascertain injury after he allegedly fled the crash scene at the bottom of Moerewa's Turntable Hill.
He is due back in the Kaikohe District Court on March 19 when he is expected to enter a plea.
Auckland woman Stacey Faaliga was driving home from a family reunion in the Far North with her three sons on the evening of October 21 last year when police say her car was struck head-on by an "out-of-control car, travelling at excessive speed".
The alleged offending driver's BMW was consumed in a fireball. Police say the driver fled on foot, leaving not just the injured mother and children, but also two companions in his own car.