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Christopher Wayne Currie (1985 – 19 August 2005) was a 20-year-old apprentice in the building trades, who was killed by a stone deliberately thrown at his car as he drove along a motorway near Auckland, New Zealand. His girlfriend and her two cousins who were in the car with him at the time of his death were injured but survived the assault. ==Rock-throwing incident== Currie was driving a car along the Southern Motorway in Auckland, and struck by an 8 kg block of concrete dropped from the Princess Street overbridge in Otahuhu. Currie's girlfriend, Helen McCreadie, in the passenger seat, attempted to regain control of the car, but it crashed after 200 meters.〔 Ngatai Rewiti, who was 14-year-old at the time of the incident was found not guilty of Currie's murder, but guilty of manslaughter on 6 July 2006. Rewiti has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 6 September. His youth has attracted ongoing press attention.〔 The stone block went through the windscreen of his car, glancing his chin causing a broken and then striking Currie in the chest. This fractured his sternum, which severed his heart's main artery and instantly killed him. The car then travelled another 120 metres down the motorway before striking a pole, causing minor injuries to the other three occupants of the car. Shortly afterwards the youth was arrested and charged with murder and endangering transport and appeared in the Manakau Youth Court on 23 August. There were a spate of "copycat" rock-throwing attacks in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Currie. Rocks thrown from highway overpasses is a recurring problem in New Zealand,〔 as are rural roadside attacks on vehicles by organized groups of rock-throwers, and similar attacks on trains. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Death of Chris Currie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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