Tensions ran high at the sentencing of a motorist who fatally struck an 18-year-old doing a wheelie on a dirt bike at an intersection. Amal Salad, 40, had earlier admitted careless driving causing the death of jockey Ngakau Sonny Bill Hailey. However, Hailey’s whānau claimed a late change to the police summary of facts - to include reference to the wheelie - was Salad’s attempt to deflect blame. “She doesn’t understand our road rules because if she did, Ngakau would still be here,” Hailey’s grandmother, Linda Gough, said through tears at yesterday’s hearing in the Hamilton District Court. The courtroom friction began before the hearing, as Hailey’s family argued with security over the amount of seating they were allowed. Given the tight space, the families were each allocated half of the public gallery. During the hearing, an emotional Gough claimed in her victim impact statement that Salad had tried to hold up the court proceedings.…