A lorry driver has gone on trial accused of failing to stop and provide the police with his details after an accident on a busy north-east road which left a young man dead.
Oskars Zenka died after being struck by a white articulated truck on the A96 Aberdeen-Inverness road, near Kintore.
Emergency services arrived shortly after the incident, which happened around 2.20am on January 23 last year.
Despite the efforts of paramedics, Mr Zenka, from Inverurie, died at the scene.
Yesterday lorry driver Gary Wilson went on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court in connection with the incident.
Prosecutors allege his vehicle struck Mr Zenka near the B987 Tavelty junction, leaving the 27-year-old with fatal injuries.
They allege he then “failed to stop and give his name and address” and “the name of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle” to the police.
Wilson, of 5 Wemyss Street, Rosyth, Fife, has not been charged with leaving the scene of a crash or causing Mr Zenka’s death.
The 38-year-old denies the charge against him.
Yesterday the court heard from two police officers who were involved in carrying out the investigation following the crash.
They said markings and traces of Mr Zenka’s DNA were found on the front of the cab of Wilson’s lorry.
The court heard these markings, along with the position in the road Mr Zenka was later found, suggested that Wilson had swerved at the point of impact.
Fiscal depute Colin Neilson asked collision scene examiner Constable James Duncan if Wilson would have been aware if he had hit a pedestrian.
He said: “He is bound to have felt the lorry vibrate. He should have heard something but he most definitely would have felt the vibrations going through the cab. It’s almost impossible not to.”
The trial, before Sheriff David Hall, continues.