A vehicle was deliberately driven at pedestrians before a person was hit and injured in Balclutha, police say.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Robin Hutton today said witnesses were being sought after the person was struck during a late-night disorder incident last month.<\/p>\n
Police responded to Clyde St, near Lanark St, about 2am on Sunday, May 17 after reports that a large group was fighting and vehicles were doing burnouts.<\/p>\n
Snr Sgt Hutton said the altercation started on Clyde St outside a community centre\u00a0where one of the vehicles \u2013 believed to have four occupants \u2013 was “intentionally driven” towards groups of pedestrians, narrowly missing several people, before striking a person on Lanark St.<\/p>\n
“The victim sustained moderate injuries which required medical treatment.”<\/p>\n
Snr Sgt Hutton said police had executed a number of search warrants in the Balclutha area, and the vehicle involved had been seized.<\/p>\n
“Police continue to follow positive lines of enquiry to identify the driver and occupants of the vehicle.”<\/p>\n
Police wanted to hear from anyone in the area at the time – between 1.40am and 2am – who witnessed the incident, or who may have been driving through and have dashcam footage.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Police 105, file number: 260517\/1225, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle was deliberately driven at pedestrians before a person was hit and injured in Balclutha, police say.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-456570","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\/456570","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=456570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}