The Weiss v The Queen standard for appellate review of jury verdicts was applied to a dangerous driving case where the defence was that a windscreen shattered before impact. The jury was entitled to reject that defence on the evidence, including expert evidence about laminated windscreens and the absence of skid marks. Even on the alternative hypothesis that the windscreen shattered immediately before impact, the appellant's prior inattention established dangerous driving. For sentencing, inattention spanning 'at least some seconds' while driving a heavy vehicle at speed on a busy highway was properly characterised as more than momentary.
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