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Tuesday 7 August 2012
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Police charge Spud Monday ‘hit and run’ van driver Andrew Board
now, the police have been really helpful since the article came out Nelson police have charged a man and I feel like there is justice now,” for careless driving after initially tell- she says. ing the family of the girl he hit with Kasey Ellery was walking home with his van that no charges would be laid. a friend from the Black Cat dairy at Area commander, Inspector Steve around 5.45pm on Friday, June 22 Greally launched an internal inves- when they stopped on an island next tigation into the incident after the to Waimea Rd. While Kasey was texmother of the 13 year old ting her mother a van travelling from Stoke hit her in hit by the van told Nelson the face with its wing mirror. Weekly she was “disgusted” Her friend jumped out of no charges would be laid. the way after seeing the van That investigation ended coming at the last second. last week with the driver, a The Nelson College for Girls 67 year old man, being forstudent suffered facial inmally charged with careless juries requiring 12 stitches driving causing injury. Inspector around her cheek and ear The man will appear in the Steve Greally and a broken ankle. Nelson District Court to She was rushed to hospital and had face the charge on September 24. Tash Ellery, mother of the injured two screws put in her ankle. girl, says she is happy the original Inspector Greally says he is satisfied decision has been reversed and that with the investigation and that the the injuries her daughter sustained matter is now before the courts. have been healing well, although she “Like any organisation we do make will have screws in her ankle for the mistakes from time to time, however rest of her life. SEE PAGE 2 “I’m really happy with the outcome
SUPER SPUD: Michelle Hanson and Paula Puha take a bite out of Spud Monday yesterday. The annual holiday commemorates the importance of the potato as a food source for early settlers to Nelson. The Museum worked alongside the Original Baked Potatoes cart on Trafalgar St to provide free spuds for Nelsonians at lunchtime. The celebration is held each year on the first Monday of August. Photo: Rosie Thomsen.
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