THE father of Wodonga man Andrew Powell has told a court his son was unlikely to have stopped on Barnawartha-Howlong Road — contrary to suggestions made by the defence solicitor for Stephen Robins.
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Denis Connell, in his opening remarks to the Wangaratta County Court on Wednesday, had raised some questions over Mr Powell’s actions just before the crash that took his life on February 9, 2010.
Mr Connell said evidence would show Mr Powell, 24, had slowed to just 10km/h and suggested he may have been completing a u-turn near Doolans Bend Road, at the end of which was a small camping and fishing area.
Mr Powell’s father, Colin Powell, yesterday told the jury his son was neither a camper nor fisherman.
“He was very much an inside sort of person,” he said.
Asked by prosecutor Andrew Moore if he had ever known his son to stop on his way home from work, Mr Powell replied: “No, it’s not Andrew at all. Andrew wouldn’t do it.”
Earlier evidence to the court showed Andrew Powell had finished his shift at Uncle Toby’s in Wahgunyah at 3pm, and swiped out of the building about 3.07pm.
The crash occurred about 3.30pm.
