Uniformed police will get on a city-bound bus in Auckland next week in a last-ditch effort to find a woman who may have vital information about a pedestrian's death.
Police said they had a "fairly good" picture of what had happened when Chinese visitor Rongfa Jiang, 53, died
after he was apparently hit by a Stagecoach bus in Dominion Road on April 18.
Police initially called it a hit and run.
The bus driver stopped his bus about 50 metres down the road and looked back. His union said he thought someone may have thrown something at the bus and he did not know a man lay fatally injured on the ground.
About eight or 10 passengers were on the bus. Police said they had spoken to three and were keen to speak to a blonde woman passenger who may have called out something about the time Mr Jiang was apparently hit.
She was sitting near the front of the bus and police said the only description they had was that she had "nice blonde hair" said Sergeant Matt Ford from the police serious crash unit.
"We are a little bit disappointed no one else has come forward but we can't force people," Mr Ford said.
He said if no further passengers came forward, police would have to decide what the next step was. He declined to say if that meant the driver would be charged over the man's death.
- NZPA
