Police officer denies careless driving

An Auckland police officer has pleaded not guilty to aggravated careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury, after his unmarked car crashed and seriously injured a schoolboy.

Aaron Holmes, 29, was driving a car which crashed into a lamp post outside an Auckland primary school in August.

The post then struck 13-year-old Farhat Buksch.

Holmes has been bailed until his trial in May.

He is still working as a specialist traffic officer, but is no longer allowed behind the wheel of police cars.

- NEWSTALK ZB