18 Feb 2021

Hit-and-run driver pleads guilty

From Midday Report, 12:44 pm on 18 February 2021

The man who crashed into a Lower Hutt woman on a pedestrian crossing, leaving her seriously injured, has pleaded guilty.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jade Mark Harris faced charges in the Hutt Valley District Court of driving a vehicle carelessly causing injury, not stopping after being involved in an accident, and driving while forbidden.

RNZ reporter, Emma Hatton, was in court today. She spoke to Māni Dunlop.