Second crash State Highway 1 in Levin

A man who helped get people out of a car involved in an accident that shut down National Highway 1 stated that the people involved "made a runner".

The accident in the center of Levin around 18:20 was the second Wednesday to close SH1 within a distance of 30 kilometers, after an accident in Ōtaki where a person was seriously injured.

A man who asked not to be named, said that he was drinking at the Oxford hotel on the main street of Levin when a loud noise sent people out to see what he was doing. Had passed.

"There were three cars [in the crash] one was going to turn to the countdown, and the other driver came in the other direction, and they crashed into the third which was parked. "

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He helped to shoot a wounded man by a car, and a woman who was also in the same car but a fight broke out between the people of the two cars.

The couple that he had helped take out a box of beers from the wreckage of their car and ran into the street, he said.

"He was full of alcohol when we took him out, but everything was full of smoke, he had a big cut in his knee, he had to go talk to each other, but then they took off. "

A police spokesman confirmed that one of the drivers had left the premises but had left his car

" The police will investigate to locate him. "

and taken away in the hospital.

Traffic had receded, and the man then helped direct the cars through the scene until the firefighters arrived and set up a diversion.

The road was reopened at 19:30.

– Tips and Tricks