An ambulance manager told a trial he filmed his friend being catapulted through the air by a doctor’s car while they were on a motorcycle club outing.
William Halley was one of a group of bikers from Edinburgh who had gone out on the run which ended with severe injuries to his friend George Stark.
Mr Halley, 57, an area service manager for the Scottish Ambulance Service, arrived to find Mr Stark lying on the road, yards from his motorcycle, on August 25 last year.
During the ride he was behind Mr Stark’s bike and Perth Sheriff Court was shown footage taken by his bike’s camera equipment and by the GoPro on his helmet.
Sheriff James Macdonald said: “Would it be fair to say the rider of the motorbike essentially catapulted over the top of the vehicle?”
Mr Halley replied: “Yes.”
The trial was told Dr Robert Allan had been turning on to the A93 Perth to Blairgowrie road from the access road leading to Balboughty Farm Cottages.
Alistair Lockerbie, another member of the club, said Allan’s car had pulled out into the biker’s path and had kept going until the front of his vehicle had crossed the central white line.
Allan, 76, of Chapel Close, Hartford, Cambridgeshire, denies causing severe injury to Mr Stark by driving carelessly into the path of his motorcycle and throwing him in the air.
The trial continues.
