Lysaght’s car hit the moped and the woman on her left leg, sending her into the air and landing on his bonnet. The woman was taken to Palmerston North Hospital with knee contusions, a sprained elbow and forearm, and a sprained tendon in her hand and wrist. When he was questioned by police at the time of the incident, he said: “I only saw the moped as the crash happened.” As Lysaght stood in the dock, his lawyer Mark Alderdice described to Judge Lance Rowe how his client had done everything he could to rectify the situation with the woman. His client was concerned a conviction and loss of licence would inhibit his chances of getting a job.
Ropes were used to reach the vehicle, a police media spokeswoman said. Three people were injured in the crash, she said. One with serious injuries was flown to Palmerston North Hospital, two others in moderate condition were taken by ambulance. On the other side of Manawatū, firefighters responded to a crash in Bulls. The car, travelling in the northbound lane, crashed into a bank on State Highway 3 just after midnight. A police media spokeswoman said one person was taken to hospital. An hour later Whanganui firefighters rushed to a single-car crash on State Highway 4 near Ōtoko marae. The car had crashed into a tree near the marae and one person appeared to be injured, a police media spokeswoman said.
Crown prosecutor Ben Vanderkolk, when opening the trial on Monday afternoon, said the boy was taken to Palmerston North Hospital in May 2019 with burns to 25 per cent of his body, including his groin and back. Defence lawyer Steve Winter said the woman maintained the burns were caused by the boy pouring a pot of hot water on himself. A friend of the woman said she was asked to go to the woman’s house urgently in 2019. The boy told her he was burnt while making pasta, the friend said. Another child and the mother repeated the same story, with the mother saying she had used lavender and Vaseline to treat the burns.
Dr Swee Tan shares his highlights of living in the capital city.
Dr Swee Tan is a world-renowned researcher and plastic surgeon who has lived in Khandallah for 26 years. Born in Malaysia, Tan travelled the world before settling in the capital, where he heads up the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute. Here’s his take on life in the capital.
How long have you been a Wellingtonian? I was here in 1992 when I was doing my training in plastic surgery. We lived here for one year and then went overseas to London, then Oxford and Boston, and then came back in 1995. I was born in Malaysia, and left in 1980. I went to Melbourne, where I studied, and then I went to Hamilton, Christchurch and Wellington. I resisted coming to Wellington because I went through Wellington in 1987 – it was a dead place, there was no restaurant open after 7pm.