Cook Islands Police were last night still looking for the drivers of the vehicles involved in crashes over the weekend.

There were two crashes on Saturday morning: in one, a driver absconded from the vehicle, and in the other, the driver fled the scene.

Police found blood stains and a phone at the scene of a suspected crash near the Met Office, but no vehicle or driver was on site. The second was called in at 3.31am when a vehicle crashed near Palm Grove, Titikaveka. The driver had fled but a phone wallet ID was left at the scene, police said.

Police spokesperson Trevor Pitt told Cook Islands News last night: “There was an identifying wallet left behind, but Police have not yet spoken to that person.”

“Another report has since been lodged, which claims that vehicle was seen earlier Friday evening driving recklessly.  Police looking into it.”

These recent crashes come after three crashes were reported to police on Thursday night, one involving the ambulance that was on its way to one of the incidents.

The first collision was called in at 9.41pm at Turangi where a motorcyclist had driven into the rear of a car, which had slowed down. The motorcyclist was transported to hospital by ambulance.

Later Thursday night, the hospital reported that a motorcyclist had driven into the ambulance at Nikao while it was en route to the Turangi crash. That motorcyclist sustained minor injuries.

The third incident was reported in at 12.43am Friday morning when a motorcyclist crashed at O’oa. 

“The driver was taken to hospital for what is a suspected alcohol-related crash,” police said.

Meanwhile, drunken behaviour in town early Saturday resulted in two people being arrested and locked up. 

“Both had been the cause of disturbances on different occasions, the first after midnight at two nightclubs and the second later in the early hours at RFC in Avarua,” police said.

• Additional reporting by Police Media