A Dandenong man charged over a girl’s death in South Australia will learn in March whether he’ll stand trial.
Shujaat Bahrami, 40, received the news at a hearing in Elizabeth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 17 January.
The matter was adjourned to Tuesday 21 March at Adelaide Magistrates Court for committal hearing, meaning the court is expected to decide whether there is a case to answer and, if so, to commit the man to a trial.
South Australian police charged Mr Bahrami with one count of causing death by dangerous driving, three counts of causing serious harm by dangerous driving, and one count of aggravated due care over an eight-year-old Kilburn girl’s death in a Barossa Valley car crash.
He was behind the wheel of a Hyundai SUV that collided head-on with a Mitsubishi Pajero four-wheel drive on Duck Pond Road, Stockwell, just before 4pm on Sunday 2 October.
The girl was in the Hyundai’s back seat and died at the scene.
The Hyundai’s other passengers, a 28-year-old woman from Kilburn and two girls aged 16 and 12-years from Pooraka, were taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
The Pajero’s driver, a 29-year-old man from South Australia’s mid-north, and his four passengers, including three children, received treatment for minor injuries.
