He denied not paying attention when he drifted to the left side of the Moggill Road left lane in Chapel Hill and collided with the 50-year-old, who died from head injuries. He said he wasn't sure how he didn't see him. Loading "It was a still a bit dark and he just appeared near the guard rail," Wills told police. His defence barrister, Laura Reece, asked jurors "to reflect on what you know" about accidents.

"The expression is: '(There) but for the grace of God go I'," she said on Wednesday. "The central idea of that saying is accidents can happen. Even attentive drivers cannot see people on the road and have accidents. "I suggest to you that this is one of those cases." Wills' account to police could be taken as honest, Ms Reece said. "He says things that are ultimately bad for him, like that he was too far over," Ms Reece said.

"It's also an entirely honest comment because you can see on the dashcam that he is quite far over on the left hand side of the lane when this incident occurs." The dashboard camera footage captured by a driver behind Wills shows the moment Mr Burden was hit, sending his bicycle into the air. Witnesses to the pre-dawn incident testified Mr Burden and his bike landed on the other side of the road's guard rail after the impact. One woman who saw the collision told the court Mr Burden was lying on the ground in a starfish shape bleeding from his nose, ears and the back of his head. They dialled triple zero and took instructions on how to help Mr Burden, who was breathing but non-responsive, until paramedics arrived.

They said Wills was in a state of shock. He did not speak to reporters on his way out of the courthouse. AAP