Charges over Avon River crash
Bail has been refused for a 27-year-old man charged over a March incident in which a car was allegedly rammed and flipped upside down into the Avon River.
John David Malcolm Mclaren Savage, a traffic management operator from Somerfield, is charged with assaulting five people using a car as a weapon, and also assaulting one of them using a bottle as a weapon.
He entered no pleas when he appeared before Judge David Ruth in the Christchurch District Court today.
Duty lawyer Trudi Aickin applied for his release on bail, but Judge Ruth ruled that Savage should be remanded in custody for an appearance by video-link from the prison on August 1.
The five alleged assault victims are all occupants of a car that was allegedly rammed in the incident on March 25 along New Brighton Road and crashed upside down into the Avon River.
The assault with the bottle is alleged to have taken place after the crash.
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