By JESSE GRAHAM
A PATTERSON Lakes man will front court in the middle of the year, following a fatal crash in Launching Place last year that killed his friend.
On Monday 11 April, Major Collision Investigation Unit (MCIU) detectives announced that a 22-year-old man had been charged for a rollover fatality on 10 April, 2015, on Milners Road.
Police allege the driver, who had left the Wesburn Hotel with a car full of friends, travelling from Yarra Junction to Launching Place, is believed to have lost control and crashed into trees, rolling the car after 11pm.
Six people were inside the five-seater four-wheel drive, and 21-year-old Charlie Robertson, from the Upper Yarra area, died at the scene.
Two other passengers, a man and a woman, were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The driver was charged on Saturday 2 April with culpable driving, negligently causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing serious injury, reckless conduct endangering life, reckless conduct endangering a person and other traffic-related offences.
The man was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on 17 June.
