By PATRICK GOWER
A Coromandel motorcamp owner is in Auckland Hospital after a scuffle with Waikato Chiefs rugby player Keith Robinson.
Police were called to Kuaotunu Motor Camp on New Year's Eve after Robinson, aged 25, and another man were reported to be upsetting other campers.
Both scuffled with camp owner Michael
Savage and Robinson was subdued by police.
Four days later, Mr Savage was admitted to intensive care in Waikato Hospital with head injuries, possibly resulting from the incident.
The scuffle started after 1.97m, 110kg Robinson tumbled on to a tent containing two children and Mr Savage and other campers tried to remove him and the other man.
Mr Savage, 50, was hit about the head.
Whitianga police arrived, restrained Robinson and removed the pair from the camp.
Mr Savage was examined by a doctor after he experienced headaches and double vision. After initially being in Waikato Hospital, he was transferred to Auckland Hospital's intensive care unit.
He had a CAT scan yesterday.
His wife, Susan, said doctors had not yet linked Mr Savage's condition to the scuffle but there was "little else to put it down to".
The couple, who have owned the camp for 18 months, were reluctant to comment on the incident.
"We have enough to deal with this and want to put it behind us," Mrs Savage said. "The Chiefs are dealing with this now."
No complaint has been laid with police.
Chiefs manager Doug Wilson has been to Kuaotunu to investigate and this afternoon will have a meeting with Chiefs chief executive Gary Dawson and Robinson.
Dawson said it was Chiefs' procedure to find out about the incident and get Robinson's side of the story.
Robinson could not be contacted yesterday.
