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both of its doors open. A woman is holding the upper body of the vehicle’s passenger, who appears to be unconscious and is half hanging out of the damaged car. Wright says the Mazda struck a parked car and pushed it 20-30 metres into a power pole, which was knocked over. Emergency services attended the crash and transported two people to hospital for medical treatment. One of the two sustained serious injuries in the crash and is continuing to recover. Police are investigating the incident and no charges have yet been laid. Wright is now campaigning alongside other local residents to find effective long-term solutions to slow the speeding drivers down. “It seems locals have been banging on doors for long enough and nothing’s really happened,” he says. ➤ Turn to page 6
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anny Wright remembers lying in bed the first night his family spent at their new east Auckland home and wondering if they’d moved next to a racetrack. Almost three years later the excessive noise from speeding motorists he and other Cockle Bay residents deal with on a nightly basis hasn’t let up. Wright says many drivers, who are mostly young men, frequently travel at high speed around the area. “We hear cars all hours of the night being turboboosted up the road,” he told the Times. “They gather at Cockle Bay Beach and rev their cars so they backfire, do burnouts, and puff their chests out. “Then they do a lap around the area, up Liston Crescent, then down Pah Road and back to the beach.” The problem came to a head on the night of May
28, when a Mazda RX-7 crashed in Pah Road just before 7.30pm. Wright was at home at the time and heard the collision. “We and our neighbours were all listening to cars doing big burnouts and carrying on,” he says. “Some guy had a particularly loud car and we heard it flying around and up Churchill Road. “I was thinking if it carries on too much longer, I’ll phone the police. “I heard the car come flying down here [Cockle Bay Road] and there was a ‘boom’, and I thought to myself ‘that sounded like a car accident’. “I went down my driveway, looked down the road, and the car was on fire. “By the time I got there, one of my neighbours had run out with a fire extinguisher and put it out.” Wright took photos of the crash scene. They show a badly damaged red Mazda RX-7 with
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