A man allegedly high on drugs, who drove at 50km/h in reverse down a Dunedin street as he pursued another vehicle in a road-rage incident yesterday, remains at large. Photo / 123RF (stock image)
A man allegedly high on drugs, who drove at 50km/h in reverse down a Dunedin street as he pursued another vehicle in a road-rage incident yesterday, remains at large. Photo / 123RF (stock image)
A man allegedly high on drugs, who drove at 50km/h in reverse down a Dunedin street as he pursued another vehicle in a road-rage incident yesterday, remains at large.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a woman who was travelling in the vehicle subjected to the man's late-morning rage said theincident began shortly after 11am, in Columba Ave, Calton Hill.
As she travelled down the narrow street in a ute, accompanied by her fiance and another person, the man in a red Mazda Familia hatchback approached their vehicle "in the middle of the road", she said.
When the man pulled alongside their ute, he stopped his car, then reversed down the street at speeds of up to 50km/h in an apparent backwards pursuit.
He then spun his vehicle around and continued following their ute towards the Southern Motorway, heading north, she said.
As both vehicles reached Lookout Point, the man stopped his vehicle and got out. He then repeatedly punched the ute the woman was travelling in, she claimed.
The group kept driving.
The man returned to his Mazda and continued to follow them.
