Friends of Samuel Collins, 19, in manslaughter trial say they didn't see David Alan Eldridge, 21, standing in driveway TWO friends of a Year 11 student who allegedly put his sister's car into gear moments before she hit and killed her boyfriend have told a court they did not see the dead man standing in the way. Samuel Collins, now 19, has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to the manslaughter of David Alan Eldridge, 21, at Alberton, south of Brisbane, on July 14, 2011. The court heard Collins was in the front passenger seat of his sister Brydee May Collins' white Holden Commodore when the car accelerated through a garden bed and into a front pillar of Mr Eldridge's parent's home when he was killed. Collins' school friends Jake Hiscock, now 18, and Jarrod Wyllie were sitting in the back seat of the car at the time. Mr Hiscock told a jury on Friday he went to visit his friend at his sister's house at Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast on July 13. He said they went to Coles for groceries and also purchased vodka and bourbon which they drank while listening to music and watching television throughout the afternoon and into the evening. Mr Hiscock said he had between two and four mixed drinks when, around 10pm, Ms Collins began to fight with her boyfriend, Mr Eldridge. He said the fight got so bad he went outside and sat in Sam's car. Mr Hiscock said Mr Eldridge's parents came to the house and took him to their home on Zipfs Rd, Alberton. He told the jury the group then got into Brydee Collin's car and drove to Mr Eldridge's parent's house, in order to get Collins' dog Bundy. When they arrived, Mr Hiscock said, Brydee Collins ran to the front door and began to bang on it, sparking a physical fight that involved punches being thrown. He said Collins threw a vodka bottle through the back windscreen of a car parked at the Eldridge home. Mr Hiscock said Brydee Collin's got into the driver's seat of her car as it was parked in the driveway and the car accelerated forward into a brick pillar near the front door, knocking it off centre. He said he last saw Mr Eldridge "go pick something up" but his attention was distracted by needing to control the two dogs which were not in the car, Mystique, who belonged to Brydee, and Collins' dog Bundy. He said the fight had caused him some panic and he wanted to leave the Eldridge house. "I was pretty worried," Mr Hiscock said. I was worried for Brydee. She was panicking. Jarrod Wyllie told the court he was also in the back of the car when it struck and killed Mr Eldridge in his parent's front yard. He said he saw Mr Eldridge come out through the front door of the house and pick up a pot, holding it as though he was going to throw it. He said he thought Mr Eldridge was standing to the side of the car's path forward. Mr Wyllie said he saw Collins' arm put Brydee Collin's car into drive before the car went forward. He said the car hit the brick pillar and became stuck, before continuing around and out the front gate of the Eldridge property. "It just happened real quick," he said. Queensland Ambulance Service advanced care paramedic Geoffrey Thomas told the jury he was called to the property on Zipfs Rd at Alberton at 12.47am. He said Mr Eldridge was to the right of the broken pillar at the front of the house, "wedged" against the front wall. Mr Thomas said Mr Eldridge was declared deceased at 1.18am. At the time of his death, Mr Edlridge was on crutches with plaster on his right leg due to a motorbike accident. The trial continues before Justice John Byrne.