Cyclist death charges

Police have charged a 43-year-old man following investigations into the road death of a 61-year-old cyclist at Inglewood earlier this year.
Truck driver Geoffrey Joseph Sleba was arrested at his Kingsthorpe home on Thursday and appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with the death of Dr Martin Pearson.
Dr Pearson was cycling along Inglewood-Millmerran Road as part of a community bike ride when he was in collision with a vehicle about 3pm on 25 April.
The driver and father-of-eight was charged with one count each of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and failing to obtain medical aid to a person injured in a traffic crash and showing callous disregard for their needs.
He was granted bail to appear at Warwick Magistrates’ Court on 8 October.