Crash victim twins had no recall

Twin brothers who were knocked down by an alleged drink-driver woke up in hospital with no memory of the crash, a court heard.

Randolph and Rudolph Smith were injured when Tracey Pitt crashed into them as they walked home, a jury at the Supreme Court has been told.

Ms Pitt, 51, is accused of injuring the twins while driving impaired on January 29, 2012.

The accident occurred at around 2:20am near the junction of Canal Road and Woodland’s Road.

Today Randolph Smith told the jury he had spent the afternoon of January 28 at his aunt’s home on Friswell’s Hill.

He said he had drank a beer at lunchtime and had three more at a party.

Mr Smith told the court that he then went out into town with his friends for the night before walking home with his brother.

Crown counsel Takiyah Burgess asked Mr Smith what happened next.

He said: “I don’t remember. I woke up in the hospital”.

Footballer

Asked if he knew why he was in the hospital, Mr Smith said ‘no’.

He told the court he woke up a week after the accident.

Mr Smith told the jury he is still a part of the football team, but can’t play.

Earlier in evidence, Rudolph Smith, told the jury he also had been drinking earlier that day but wasn’t drunk.

He said: “I have never been the type to drink to get folded. If I feel like that, I stop.”

The witness told the jury that when he woke up in the hospital he asked why he was there and how he got there.

He also asked where his brother was.

He said: “When I asked about my brother, they were giving me a big runaround instead of saying he was in the accident with me.

“He was with me so I wanted to know where he was.”

Ms Pitt denies causing grievous bodily harm to the Smith brothers by driving while impaired, two counts of reckless driving, impaired driving and refusing to provide a sample of breath for analysis. 

The case continues.