One of the damaged cars was rammed up onto the footpath Photo/Ben Fraser
One of the damaged cars was rammed up onto the footpath Photo/Ben Fraser
Witnesses saw a motorist ram into several parked cars on a Rotorua city street before "boosting down the street on a punctured tire with his front bumper hanging off".
A number of witnesses saw the man leaving a nearby cafe prior to the incident yesterday afternoon.
He then got intohis car, parked on Whakaue St, and reversed "about five times, each time crashing into the parked cars around him", witness John Pauling said.
"I saw him floor it, crashing so violently into one of the parked cars it went up on the kerb.
"This mum's kids had just crossed the road when he came hooning past so she was screaming in terror clutching her kids.
"I ran over and tried to open his front door but he had locked himself in. In a matter of seconds he was boosting down the street on a punctured tire with his front bumper hanging off."
Anne Scott said she was sitting on her balcony when she heard an "almighty crash".
"I rushed over just as the man took off down the street at what looked like 80km. I heard all these people screaming and that's when I saw all the damaged cars.
