A car collided with another vehicle and smashed into a storefront on Dominion Rd in the early hours of this morning. The driver fled on foot. The other driver was killed and a passenger is in a critical condition. Photo / Rachel Maher
A car collided with another vehicle and smashed into a storefront on Dominion Rd in the early hours of this morning. The driver fled on foot. The other driver was killed and a passenger is in a critical condition. Photo / Rachel Maher
A manhunt is under way for a driver involved in a fatal crash in central Auckland last night after he fled from the scene on foot.
The crash, which happened in Balmoral, killed the driver of the other car and left a passenger in critical condition.
Detective Senior Sergeant Rebecca Kirk said just after 1am, two vehicles collided on Dominion Rd, near Wiremu St, just after 1am.
One vehicle smashed into the front of a vacant store while the other came to a stop a short distance away.
“Immediately after the crash, the driver of the vehicle which crashed into the shop fled on foot from the scene.”
The wreckage of the front door is lying mangled on the floor of a commercial premises on Dominion Rd this morning.
Police have left the scene untapped and have not covered the front, leaving the scattered glass, iron and car parts for people to see as they walk past.
The shop is in the middle of being remodelled, with painters’ tape still on the walls and off-cuts of the flooring strewn around the floor amongst the glass.
