Harassment on Dyers Pass Rd

Press, 15 April 1988, Page 3

Harassment on Dyers Pass Rd

Two reports of roadusers being harassed on Dyers Pass Road have been given to the police after inquiries into the accident that led to the death of a Christchurch cyclist, Mr Simon Mackie.

Mr Mackie, aged 31, died after he came off his bicycle on a hairpin bend on Dyers Pass Road and broke his back. The occupants of a blue-grey car are believed to have abused Mr - Mackie and followed him down the hill playing “chicken” shortly before the accident.

Police inquiries into the January 16 accident have yet to identify the car or its occupants. Senior Constable Marty Fitzsimmons said that after recent publicity a motorist had reported being followed.

by a grey-blue !Fiat 125 from Governor’s Bay on January 17. i Three or four youths were in the car, which was being driven erratically. A woman cyclist had reported that in midFebruary she was harassed by the! occupants of a blue-grey box-like car while riding on Dyers Pass Road. The car drove close behind her and the youths jeered at her and yelled abuse, she told thei police. Senior | Constable Fitzsimmons said that in both incidents the description I of the vehicle matched that of the vehicle believed to have been involved in Mr Mackie’s accident.

The police were still anxious to speak to anyone who knew anything further about the accident, he said.