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Hit and run accused granted bail
An 18-year-old charged with Saturday night?s fatal hit and run crash in Hornby has been remanded on bail for two weeks.
Harry Philip Silcock, a welder from Burnham, came forward the day after the pedestrian was killed in the late night incident, and appeared before Judge Michael Crosbie in Christchurch District Court today.
He was charged that being the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal accident, he failed to render assistance after the accident.
The police have said that more charges are likely after one of the two cars ? which were said to be side-by-side either racing, or overtaking ? struck a group of pedestrians beside Shands Road.
One man in his early 20s was killed and died at the scene, and three other people were injured. One man, also in his 20s, was taken to Christchurch Hospital with leg injuries.
Witnesses said neither of the two vehicles involved stopped at the scene.
Defence counsel James Rapley asked for the remand, without plea, and said Silcock had handed himself in to the police, accompanied by his aunt, last night, and was to meet the police again to continue assistance.
Police did not oppose Silcock?s release on bail.
Judge Crosbie remanded him to appear again at the marae on October 1, and imposed conditions that he remain at home at Burnham between 7pm and 6am every night, not drive, and not consume alcohol or enter licensed premises.
