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Police seek motorist over hit-and-run death

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are on the hunt for a motorist who “ran over” a man on a motorcycle and “left him for dead”.

According to police, shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve, a traffic accident occurred on Spikenard Road involving a 2006 Honda motorcycle occupied by an adult male and a dark coloured sports utility vehicle (SUV).

Police are unsure of the circumstances surrounding the accident, but said the driver of the SUV failed to remain on the scene after hitting the motorcyclist.

The victim was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries shortly after 5pm on Friday, January 1.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.

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