I hope they lock him up and throw away the key
I dunno why someone would downvote this sentiment. This clown has been a diabetic for three decades and received nine notifications in the 50 minutes prior to the accident, letting him know his blood glucose was low.
Fucking. Irresponsible. And now five people have lost their lives, including two children.
Well that settles the did he have access to cgm levels of info question…
Driving on 2.9, what a moron
On Monday, Detective Sergeant Peter Romanis told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Mr Swale scanned his blood glucose monitoring device at 5:17pm, about 40 minutes before the crash.
The officer said it produced a reading of 2.9 millimoles of glucose per litre of blood, a level considered to be below a safe threshold.
“The accused received and ignored a further eight mobile phone alerts via a blood glucose monitoring app prior to the collision occurring,” Sergeant Romanis said.
Sergeant Romanis said Mr Swale was captured on CCTV entering a wine bar at 5:20pm and asking for a table, before returning to his vehicle.
He was seen driving his vehicle at 5:42pm and 5:44pm, and then at 6:07pm when he “lost control of the BMW” as it travelled down Albert Street, over a kerb and into the diners who were seated at tables on the grass reserve.
While 2.9 is low, I’ve seen CGMs report values that low when in reality it’s at about 5 or 6. They can do it for days on end.
Hopefully they took a blood sample at the scene and measured that.
Now I’m concerned that this idiot has ruined it for everyone else. There’s already a ridiculous amount of hoops to jump through for VicRoads to hand a licence to a T1D. Yet, the bar is evidently too low for everyone else.
He was 2.9 40 minutes before the crash. I assume it went down even lower?
