Source: New Zealand Police
Attribute to Detective Alistair Hill, Hamilton City CIB:
Hamilton Police are appealing for information following a road-rage assault that has left a person in serious condition, today.
Police were called around 9am with a report that a person had been assaulted at the intersection of Massey Street and Korimako Street, before the offenders had fled in a vehicle.
The victim was transported to hospital, by ambulance, in a serious condition.
Initial enquiries suggest that this assault appears to be a road-rage incident, that is believed to have started on Higgins Road and made its way to the intersection where the assault occurred.
Police know there were at least two offenders but are yet to identify them or their vehicle and are now asking the public for their help.
If you witnessed the road-rage incident or assault, have any information about the incident, or travelled through the area and have dashcam footage, please get in touch.
You can provide information by heading online to https://www.police.govt.nz/use-105 or by calling 105.
Please reference file number 260227/4370.
Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
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