Assault, not an accident
Sir, —I read the report of my accident at Salisbury and Colombo Streets in your issue of April 12. The facts were not stated correctly. 1 was going home on Saturday night after seeing a film when, passing Peterborough Street, some boys in a van shouted to me after I had crossed the street and was turning into Peterborough Street. I flashed my torch on them to see if it was anybody I knew and went on my 1 way up Colombo Street. A man got out of the van, ran after me, and punched me so hard on the right side of the face that he smashed my cheek bone. Several times I have seen motorists chase pedestrians with cars, including myself. I don’t think the hit-and-run accidents are such at all, but are attacks on pedestrians from those in cars getting out and beating them up. I was only five minutes from my flat.—Yours, etc., GEO. V. GRAY. April 20. 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32587, 22 April 1971, Page 12
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