Woman’s legs broken after she was allegedly run over by a car driven by her partner, court hears

He is charged with intentionally causing serious injury, recklessly causing serious injury, driving in a dangerous manner that caused serious injury, driving while suspended, and failing to render assistance immediately after an accident.

The court was told the man had an argument with his partner at a campsite, before allegedly assaulting her on March 21.

The prosecution alleges the woman got in her car and drove off, but the man followed her in his own car.

Police were called to an incident about 6.55pm where a person had been hit by a vehicle in Bridge Rd, Arcadia.

The man told a witness who arrived on the scene that she had been hit by a kangaroo, but the victim said she had been hit by a car, police told the court.

The woman was flown to a Melbourne hospital after the incident.

The prosecution said the woman told police she had stopped twice and had an argument with the man, who was following her.

On the second occasion police say the woman told them she got out of her car and stood in the road and told the man to leave her alone.

Police allege the man said he told the woman he was going to kill her.

She ran off into the surrounding bush and police allege the man reversed his car before accelerating at the woman, colliding with her and causing the wheel to go over her legs, police told the court.

The woman allegedly told police the man tried to drag her off the road when the witness arrived.

The prosecution opposed bail, saying the man was a risk of endangering the safety and welfare of the woman.

The man’s solicitor, Georgia Hogg, said the man had a significant back injury and had an auditory and learning disability that affected his reading and writing.

Magistrate David Faram, however, said he did not have any information that confirmed the presence of an intellectual disability in the man.

Prosecutor Samantha Owen told the court the victim had “suffered extreme trauma” from the incident.

“She is extremely terrified of the prospect of him being bailed,” Ms Owen said.

She said that while the woman had since been released from hospital, she would be “unable to walk for months”.

Ms Owen also argued there would not be an “exceptional delay” in the case proceeding before the courts, even though it could take two years before a trial was held if the man contested the charges.

Ms Hogg, however, argued her client should be able to return home while he waited for his matter to proceed through the courts, as he had no prior convictions for breach of bail.

In refusing bail, Mr Faram said the “alleged offences were significant and serious”.

He also labelled it “extreme violence in a family violence setting”.

Mr Faram said he was satisfied that any delay in the matter coming before the courts was “not unreasonable”.

The man was remanded in custody until his next appearance in court in July for a committal mention.