A COURT heard how a driver should have fixed a mirror on the side of his truck before an accident which led to the death of a student.
Tsz Fok, 22, was killed at the junction of Broad Street and Parks Road in Oxford city centre in April last year.
Truck driver Trevor Ashworth, 31, denies a charge of driving without due care and attention and is standing trial at Wantage Magistrates' Court.
Peter Jenkins, an accident investigator for Thames Valley Police, said he believed the mirror was not in the right place. He suggested if the mirror had been at the right angle Ashworth could have seen Mr Fok.
Mr Jenkins said Ashworth should have adjusted the mirror at the earliest opportunity or carried out "extreme caution and care" until he could have adjusted it.
He said: "I think Mr Fok would have been visible if the mirror had been fixed."
On Monday the trial heard how truck driver, Ashworth, of Theale, in Berkshire, failed to spot Mr Fok as he turned left into Parks Road while the university student tried to cycle across the junction.
The trial continues.
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