Moon tried to avoid crash: officer
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598 05.12.2011 Bafana Bafana player Bryce Moon, leaves the Randburg Magistrate Court yesterday after his appearance. The star is on trial following an accident in which turner’s housekeeper was killed. Picture:Itumeleng English 598 05.12.2011 Bafana Bafana player Bryce Moon, leaves the Randburg Magistrate Court yesterday after his appearance. The star is on trial following an accident in which turner’s housekeeper was killed. Picture:Itumeleng English
Soccer star Bryce Moon tried to avoid hitting a Johannesburg woman after losing control of his car, the Randburg Magistrate's Court heard on Wednesday.
This was the testimony of metro police officer Mphumzi Tom, who attended to the accident scene.
He said he forgot to mention in his first statement that Moon had told him he had lost control of his car at the traffic lights as the road was about to curve.
Moon has been charged with culpable homicide and negligent driving after his car hit and killed Mavis Ncube while she was walking to work with her cousin Thandi Sibanda in 2009.
Reading out his second statement to the court on Wednesday, Tom said: “He 1/8Moon 3/8 saw the pedestrians and tried to avoid them, but he bumped one of them.”
He said Moon also told him where he had struck the woman.
A photograph used by the State against Moon showed the spot where Moon struck Ncube.
Ncube's employer Greg Turner apparently took the photographs with the metro police officer a week after the accident took place.
“In photo five, the rock here has been noted as the point of impact... who showed you that?” asked defence lawyer Naren Sangham.
“Mr Turner and Thandi told me,” said Tom.
The defence asked Tom how Sibanda could have shown him the point of impact as the court had heard she did not see the car coming, she only heard it.
On Monday, State witness Nancy Turner told the court that Sibanda had told her she did not know how the accident happened.
She had only heard the car coming and the two pedestrians had run off in different directions.
Tom said he could not comment on that.
Sangham also asked how Moon could have shown the point of impact if he was also injured.
“He did not show me, he told me,” Tom said.
He said he arrived at the accident scene and the first person he spoke to was Moon, who had a serious cut on his face and was bleeding profusely.
Tom said when he spoke to Moon at the scene, he did not smell of alcohol.
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011, the court heard that Moon smelled of alcohol when he was at the Morningside Clinic after the accident.
The trial continues on Thursday, December 08, 2011. - Sapa