HIT AND RUN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 202, 19 April 1932, Page 4

HIT AND RUN

CYCLIST KNOCKED QVER BY CAR IN WHAKA ROAD MACHINE THROWN OVER GATE A bad example of the hit and run trype of accident occurred in Whaka road about 6.15 p.m. last evening, when a cyclist, Mr. Alfred Priee, of Fenton St., was knocked off his cycle by a motor car approaehing from the rear and left lying in the roadway in a partially dazed condition. The cycle was apparently carried by \ the car, and was picked up in a badly j damaged condition in another street, It was found thrown over a gate, ; apparently in an endeavour to dis-j pose incriminating evidence. Mr. Price was cycling from the: dir'ection jof Whakarewarewa to- 1 ward Rotorua, and when near the | Marguerita Street intersection, heard | the noise of a car approaehing froinl ; the rear. He was well on his right j I side, but before he had time to real-| t ise what had happened, he wasj thrown violently from his machinel to the roadway. In his partiallyi dazed condition, Mr Price was un-1 able to obtain the number of thel car or any other description. Hei found, however, that his machinel had disappeared and this was laterj picked up over the fence in Ti St. I