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Information about process about a particular bus hitting a parked car

Hugh Davenport made this Official Information request to Wellington Regional Council

The request was successful.

From: Hugh Davenport

Dear Wellington Regional Council,

Just letting you know that 7th Jan one of your Metlink buses collided with a parked car causing damage. The Police were not informed, the driver of the vehicle was not at the scene to be informed. This goes against the responsibilities of a driver as per the road code (https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadc...).

Confirmation from the Police is at https://fyi.org.nz/request/9344-informat...

This was related to the LGOIMA request that I withdrew (https://fyi.org.nz/request/9343-informat...). I would like to reopen this request to determine whether the bus driver made contact with the driver and/or owner of the vehicle they collided with. If contact was made, I would like to know how long after the collision contact was made with the driver.

If the driver did not make contact with the driver/owner of the other vehicle, and they did not make contact with the Police (as confirmed by the Police), I would like to know what actions Metlink and the operators took towards the illegality of this driver.

I would also like to know Metlink and the operators actions towards this incident in general if any.

The bus information: Route 1GV, LME492.
The car information: unknown
The crash location: Courtney Place by St James, Wellington, bus stop 5002
The crash time: 7th January 2019, 3:28pm.

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

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From: Sam Horsefield
Wellington Regional Council

Dear Hugh,

 

Acknowledgement of Request for Information under the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

 

Thank you for your email dated 13 February 2019, requesting information
regarding the process of a particular bus hitting a parked car.

 

Your request is being followed-up and a reply will be sent to you within
20 working days of the request being received.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Sam Horsefield

 

 

for

Luke Troy

General Manager

Strategy

Greater Wellington Regional Council

 

 

 

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From: Nichola Powell
Wellington Regional Council

Attachment OIA 2019 047 Hugh Davenport response.pdf
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Dear Mr Davenport

Attached is our response to your OIA 2019-047.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Nichola

 

Nichola Powell | Executive Assistant to General Manager Public Transport
 
GREATER WELLINGTON REGIONAL COUNCIL
Te Pane Matua Taiao
Level 2, 15 Walter Street

PO Box 11646, Manners St, Wellington 6142
T: 04 830 4179 | www.gw.govt.nz | www.metlink.org.nz

 

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From: Hugh Davenport

Dear Nichola Powell,

Thanks. Great to see that action was taken after I made a request :)

Yours sincerely,

Hugh Davenport

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