David Bullock, 78, was struck by a car on a rural road near Leeston<\/a>, Canterbury, on July 4 and died from his injuries.<\/p>\nAccording to charge sheets, a man was summoned to appear at Christchurch District Court today, charged with driving in a manner which was dangerous to the public and caused the death of Bullock.<\/p>\n
He was granted name suppression and the case was remanded off until December 23.<\/p>\n
Bullock was a popular local postie finishing his last delivery on his last day of work before retirement when he was killed.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the\u00a0intersection of Leeston and Lakes Rd and Harts Rd\u00a0after a report of a vehicle colliding with two pedestrians.<\/p>\n
Bullock was found deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n
News of Bullock\u2019s death spread through the community quickly.<\/p>\n
He was a\u00a0well-known and liked NZ Post delivery driver, having worked for the company for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n
Bullock was also the president of the Canterbury Indoor Bowls Association, and New Zealand Indoor Bowls posted at the time about the tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with sadness that NZIB acknowledges the sudden passing of David Bullock QSM.<\/p>\n
\u201cDavid was awarded a QSM for his contribution to the sport of indoor bowls and was a well-known figure in the indoor bowling world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leeston locals and bowls players from across the country were shocked to hear about Bullock\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cA true legend, leaving behind a trail of kindness and generosity,\u201d said one Leeston local at the time.<\/p>\n
Bullock is survived by three children \u2013 two daughters and a son \u2013 and his two sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Al Williams, Open Justice reporter A man has been charged after the death of a popular postie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-154783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}