Passing truck clips mum buckling child in, doesn't stop

A truck has hit the arm of a woman who was buckling her child into a car seat in Dunedin. Photo / NZH

A woman escaped with bruising when her arm and her car door were hit by a passing truck as she was buckling a child into the back seat in Dunedin yesterday.

Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said anyone who had information on the incident, or who saw a bright yellow flat deck truck on Macandrew Rd about 2.45pm should contact police.

''A mother was putting her children into a vehicle on the side of the road when a truck has gone past, collected her arm and the door as it's passed,'' Snr Sgt Dinnissen said.

The truck did not stop.

''[The truck driver] possibly did not know they had collected them — you would have thought they would have because there would have been a noise.''

The woman went to Dunedin Hospital with bad bruising to her arm and the child was not injured, he said.