Hit and run

[Aussie George]

A YOUNG woman was killed yesterday after she was allegedly run down by her boyfriend after a lovers' quarrel at a New Year's Eve party.

The pair, from Campbelltown in Sydney's west, were visiting family in the ACT suburb of Gungahlin when the incident occurred.

Witnesses yesterday told The Daily Telegraph the 18-year-old victim allegedly saw the car coming but did not have time to get out of the way.

Witnesses said yesterday the woman and her 22-year-old boyfriend were arguing loudly in Mary Gillespie Ave just moments before the incident occurred at 2am (AEDT). The argument and the sound of loud banging of fists on the car woke neighbours before the boyfriend allegedly got into his car and drove off.

The young woman then allegedly laid on the road.

Witnesses said yesterday they were debating about whether to go and check whether the woman was all right when the car is alleged to have driven at speed around a corner and back towards where the woman was on the ground.

"She saw the car coming, she lifted her head up but it was too fast for her to get out of the way," a witness told The Daily Telegraph yesterday. "It was too close for him to slow down."

Another witness said she began screaming to alert the woman about the on-coming car but it was too late.

After the car allegedly hit the woman with a loud bang, the man drove off.

A neighbour who saw the tragedy from her upstairs bedroom window called police before rushing to help the badly injured woman.

"She was going into and out of consciousness," the neighbour said.

"There was blood coming out of her head."

As the woman's friends and relatives gathered around her on the road, the car is alleged to have returned to the scene.

It swerved off the road to avoid the group gathered around the injured woman and ran into the median strip, damaging a steel pole, before it drove off again.

A witness took down the number plate of the blue Holden Commodore.

A major search for the man was launched involving officers from the ACT dog squad, special response and security team and general duties officers.

Police located the vehicle they believe was involved about 3am after it was abandoned on Horse Park Drive near the Federal Highway.

The boyfriend was located on Majura Lane not far from the Federal Highway just after 7am.

Ambulance officers worked on the woman at the scene but she died later in Calvary Hospital.

Police were last night interviewing the woman's boyfriend.

The death has not been included in the territory's Christmas road toll, with police saying they are investigating whether the hit-and-run was deliberate.

Witnesses said the family hosting the New Year's Eve party had moved into the neighbourhood just weeks ago.

"It's a beautiful pleasant neighbourhood, the party was pleasant, the music was nice," one neighbour said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22995846-2,00.html

[bobcraken84]

That is such a sad story. I hate hearing stories like this. It seems that when people do things like this, it is the lowest possible form of dishonesty. They don't have the guts to face what they have done. I hope that it continues to haunt them until they turn themsleves in. Do you guys think that it will eventually eat them up?

[mcsap]

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