Ayubullo Mohammad-Daud is blaming “inattention” as the reason he says he “accidentally” drove a stolen van onto a sidewalk, striking and killing a man who had beaten him in a street fight less than an hour earlier.

“I accidentally lost control ’cause I reached for a phone on the ground and (was) not paying attention,” Mohammad-Daud testified in front of a Superior Court jury Monday.

“I had no idea that somebody got hit,” he said.

The 23-year-old has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the late-afternoon hit-and-run death of Steven Doyle, 27, who was riding a bike on George St., between Shuter and Gerrard Sts., on Aug. 15, 2016.

On Monday, Mohammad-Daud repeatedly called prosecutor Karen Simone a liar when she challenged his testimony that he returned to George St. to score heroin — not settle a score — despite a witness hearing him tell Doyle “I’ll be back” after the two got into an altercation.

“I don’t even know the person,” Mohammad-Daud said, adding it was “a very tragic day of my addiction to heroin, of wanting heroin.”

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Wearing a collegiate-style leather jacket with his dark hair pulled up into a large bun, Mohammad-Daud sometimes smiled and giggled during his animated testimony and made sudden requests to sip water.

After he denied earlier meeting Doyle, Simone played surveillance footage of the two interacting on George St. an hour before he returned.

“I’m the person on the street, how would you know,” Mohammad-Daud said. “May I tell you something, everything you’re saying is a very untruthful thing and it’s sad that you’re saying this ... in front of normal people.”

Simone told Mohammad-Daud he was the one lying to the jury and said he stole the van with the intention of returning to George St., because he was “still angry that (he) lost the fight with Mr. Doyle.”

“I’m sorry that you’re lying,” he shot back.

“I was the driver, I knew what happened that day,” he continued. “What happened was that I lost control, of mis-paying attention driving dangerously, and (the collision) accidentally, coincidentally happened and you’re making stuff up.”

Mohammad-Daud told jurors that on his “life and heart” he did not kill Doyle intentionally — and would never lie about it.

In response, Simone confronted Mohammad-Daud with his criminal record. On July 28, 2016, 17 days before he killed Doyle, Mohammad-Daud was behind the wheel of a stolen Mercedes in Mississauga when he deliberately tried to hit two construction workers after they confronted him about stealing property.

The workers went to hospital with broken bones, and Mohammad-Daud pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.

Despite his plea, Mohammad-Daud on Monday told the jury he didn’t intentionally hit the workers.

“I actually pressed the gas and the poor person was in front of it, but I had no intention of doing anything to the person,” he said.

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He also agreed he’s twice being convicted of obstructing a police officer, has committed multiple crimes of theft and has 14 convictions for disobeying court orders.

“Can I be honest with you? When you’re addicted to heroin, you will do anything to have that in your body.”

The trial resumes Tuesday.