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(From The Journal)
Byline: Hugh Macknight
AROAD traffic policeman accelerated to 94mph seconds before he hit and killed a 16-year-old Hayley Adamson, a court heard.
Northumbria Police traffic officer PC John Dougal was driving at more than three times the speed limit immediately before his high-powered Volvo patrol car hit the schoolgirl, killing her instantly, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
The 41-year-old, who denies causing death by dangerous driving, had not activated his blue lights or siren before the accident on Denton Road in Newcastle.
The Sacred Heart High School pupil's family wept as a jury of four men and eight women watched CCTV footage of the moment Hayley died at 11pm on May 19 last year.
PC Dougal was attempting to catch a Renault Megane car which had activated his patrol car's automatic number plate recognition system when Hayley, of Cedar Road, Fenham, Newcastle, stepped into the road.