WOMAN CYCLIST HIT BY TRUCK
Painstaking Police Search Leads To Arrest (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS. February 11. A painstaking search, in which they drove for many miles over country roads picking up fragments of glass, led lo -lhe arrest of a 25-year-ohl man bite tonight arising out of a hit-and-run accident nt 4 p.m. in which an elderly woman was seriously injured. The victim was Mrs. Ingrid Cook, Havelock Niirth. who was admitted to hospital in Hastings with multiple injuries.
Mrs. Hook was cycling along the main road from Hastings to Havelock North when she was struck by a light, truck at an intersection. The vehicle did not stop, mid Mrs. Cook was found lying unconscious in Hie roadway. The police were informed, and Constables If Farqnlmrson and W. S. Ciaigie began searching a wide area. The glass was traced to a farm, where a tiuek was found wilh a headlamp broken, mid an arrest was subsequently made.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 10
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