SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23479, 17 October 1939, Page 9

SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT

TAXI-DRIVER BEFORE COURT A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY [nr telegraph—preps association] WELLINGTON, Monday Ah accident on t lie Wellington-Ma-sterton main highway which involved a taxi and another motor-car led lo the appearance in the Supreme Court at Wellington to-day of Herbert Swain, taxi-driver, aged G4, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to stop , after an accident and ascertain if any person was injured. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. W. H. Cunningham, said that on the aftornoon of July 24 Mrs. Mavis MePh'ee was driving her car from Mastorton toward Grcytown. As sho neared a bond near an intersection ehe_ saw a ear approaching with a lorry in tow. It . was alleged that another car, driven by accused; subsequently came from behind the lorry and collided with the side of Mrs. McPhee's car. .It crumpled the back and right hand front mudguard and knocked olf a door handle. A front mudguard of the ear driven by accused was also damaged. Mr. Cunningham added that accused reported the accident to the police next morning and in a statement said ho had just passed a lorry when lie felt a bump. Accused asked a passenger if the other car had stopped' and the passenger answered in the negative. thought everything was all right and went on to Masterton," accused said in his statement. After an all-day sitting the case wag adjourned until "to-morrow.