Fed: Hit and run victim probably obscured by grass

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2000
Fed: Hit and run victim probably obscured by grass

Police are appealing for help in finding the motorist who hit a woman who was left
lying injured beside a major Canberra road for up to seven hours before being discovered.

She died shortly after arriving at Canberra Hospital.

The victim, named yesterday as 33-year-old mother of three SALLY ANN GOODWIN, was spotted
lying beside the main road to Sydney by a passing truck driver at about 6.30am on Boxing
Day.

Police say her body lay two metres inside the wide Northbourne Avenue median strip,
and was obscured by long grass and a small, temporary wire fence, which she may have struck.

A police spokesman said the woman was last seen leaving a party at nearby Lyneham

- five minutes walk from the accident scene - at around 11.30pm.

Northbourne Avenue is the chief thoroughfare through Canberra's north.

It becomes the Federal Highway north of Canberra - the main road to Sydney.

Police are hoping people may have seen the woman's red shoe lying in the road which
would help them pinpoint the time of the collision.

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KEYWORD: TOLL ACT (CANBERRA)

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