A police officer who failed to breath test Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' wife at the scene of a serious car crash in 2013 later apologised for the mishap.
Catherine Andrews wasn't tested for alcohol when her car and a 15-year-old cyclist collided when the family were on holiday at Blairgowrie on the Mornington Peninsula.
The teenage boy was seriously injured.
The Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday announced an investigation into the police handling of the incident.
Mr Andrews, who was then the Labor opposition leader, fronted the media on Thursday to answer any questions about the crash after police denied a Freedom of Information request for related documents.
The premier and his wife, who had been driving at the time of the accident, had not consumed alcohol when the cyclist "T-boned" their car, Mr Andrews said.
"(It was) one of the most sickening, awful things that I have ever experienced," he said.
"He hits the side of the car, he's then into the windshield.
"There is glass everywhere. There are three small children in the back of the seat ... They are screaming, they are just distraught."
One of two police officers who attended the scene later apologised for not breath testing Mrs Andrews, the premier said.
"She (the officer) said, "I'm really sorry that we didn't breath-test you. We should have'," Mr Andrews added.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton earlier said it was "unusual" for a breath test not to be done.
"In fact we admonished the two officers involved at the time. One thought that one had done it, the other thought the other had done it," Mr Aston told 3AW.
The premier also said rumours surrounding the crash - including allegations the state's United Firefighters Union has a secret recording of him - were "a revolving door of fiction and fantasy".
Mr Andrews is "completely comfortable" with any documents related to the crash being released amid a second FOI request.
The IBAC investigation is a "routine oversight of police procedures", and not a probe into him or his wife, the premier said.
Victoria Police advised Mr Andrews not to approach the family of the injured cyclist at the time, but the premier said he is happy to speak to them now.
"The sound of him hitting the car, the sound of the children screaming in the back of the car will never leave me or Catherine," Mr Andrews said.
"If I could change even a split second, then I would."
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