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The judge described the circumstances as utterly unique, and accepted the driver showed genuine distress during his police interview.

A Sydney garbage truck driver who ran over a homeless man sleeping in inner Sydney has been cleared of negligent driving, after the judge accepted that he mistook the man for a pile of blankets.

Garbage truck driver Ian Juurick hit Matthew Hayne, who was sleeping in a Redfern lane in May 2018. The judge described the circumstances as utterly unique, and accepted Juurick showed genuine distress during his police interview.

 

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