A woman who ran over Rotorua man Israel Jack as he lay on Te Ngae Rd has appeared in court.
Micah Rachel Sykes, 20, from Rotorua, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court yesterday to 100 hours' community work and disqualified from driving for six months after she pleaded guilty to one charge of driving with excess breath alcohol and one charge of possession of cannabis. Her sentence also covered a separate charge of obstructing police for which she had been been offered diversion but failed to complete the conditions.
According to the police summary, Sykes was driving along Te Ngae Rd in the early hours of August 18 last year.
Mr Jack was lying on the road between Pohutukawa Dr and Robinson Ave. He was wearing dark clothing and the adjacent street lighting was not working.
Sykes did not see him and drove straight over him without slowing or swerving. He had been run over by another vehicle about two minutes earlier. Sykes' passenger said he thought they had hit a person so she stopped, swapped seats and the passenger drove the car back where they found Mr Jack dead. The summary said Mr Jack sustained multiple injuries as a result of being run over twice but it couldn't be determined if either of the cars had caused his death.