A WITNESS has told how he saw a cyclist thrown up to 20m in the air after being struck by a speeding maroon-coloured Commodore near Anakie on Mother’s Day last year.

Matthew Weston was giving evidence at the committal hearing of Bradley Azzopardi, 25, who is charged with culpable driving causing death over the hit-run death of 77-year-old cyclist Gordon Ibbs on the Geelong-Ballan Rd last year.

Mr Weston said he was returning home from Geelong about 2.30pm that day when he saw a maroon VT Commodore travelling “faster than the speed limit”.

He said he was about 70m away when he looked in the rear vision mirror and saw the cyclist fly from 15m to 20m into the air.

Mr Weston said the Commodore did not stop.

The hearing, before Magistrate Michael Coghlan, is continuing.

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