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A man has handed himself into police after an overnight manhunt following a fatal hit-and-run in Sydney’s west, which police believe was the result of a road rage incident.
About 8.45am on Thursday as parents dropped their kids at nearby schools, police say a 27-year-old man was involved in a road rage incident with another man on Jersey Road in Blackett, near Mount Druitt.
Police released this CCTV image of the ute. Credit: NSW Police
The man was on foot, and appeared to cling on to the side of another man’s white ute and was dragged 100 metres down the busy road before he was hit and critically injured.
The driver of the white ute allegedly fled the scene and passersby rushed to the man’s aid.
Despite the best efforts of paramedics, the man could not be saved and died at the scene, which was inside a 40-kilometre-per-hour school zone.
“Apparently the victim had gotten out of [his] vehicle after being threatened by a car following him and obviously, words were said. That’s what’s led us to believe it could have happened because of a road-rage incident,” Acting Inspector Shane Ranee of Mount Druitt police said on Thursday.
After a public appeal and an overnight investigation from the crash investigation unit and homicide squad, a 39-year-old man walked into Mount Druitt police station at about 6.30 on Friday morning.