“He must have let off five, I don’t know if it was four, five or six shots with a revolver.
“You could see the revolver, quite a big revolver, clearly.”
The visitor to Rotorua said the ute and the other vehicle “took off through the red light”, then the ute did a “sharp turn” and ploughed into the driver’s side of the other vehicle.
“Then they just both split and went [in] different directions.
“I’m all right now. I’m shaking a bit.
“It was quite unnerving, I’ll tell you. You wonder where all the spare bullets had gone.”
Dave said he saw a couple of people duck for cover.
“I just couldn’t get out of there fast enough, but … all the traffic just stopped.
“The lights turned green and nobody went. It was just unbelievable. I ducked. I lay across my car seat.”
There was shattered glass on the road at the intersection when the Rotorua Daily Post arrived at the intersection on the corner of Malfroy Rd and Old Taupō Rd.
A man, who did not want to be named, said he was at the shops on the corner when the incident happened.
”I heard it,” he said. ”There were five shots and a squeal of tyres.”
The Rotorua Daily Post spoke to several other people in the area who did not witness the incident but were generally concerned by the reported use of firearms in the neighbourhood.
A police spokesperson said police received a report of occupants of a dark-coloured sedan discharging a firearm at a white ute on Old Taupō Rd around 1.40pm.
Neither vehicle had been located, but police were making positive inquiries.
“No one was injured in the incident and an investigation remains ongoing.”
Anyone with information that could help police was asked to call 105 and quote event number P056085129.
