A MOTORIST’S MISTAKE
TRIED TO RACE THE INSPECTOR. (Special to the “Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. William Wallace Gibson was fined £5 and costs by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning on a charge of speeding on the North Road. It came out in evidence that accused tried to keep ahead of another car, but discovered, too late, that it was the car of the Waimairi County Council traffic inspector. Jlr W. J. Sim, who appeared for the defendant, said his client was a sportsman. He was driving along the North Road when he heard a car coming up behind him. Thinking it a private car, Im “stepped on it a little” until he was touching 55 miles an hour. The car behind held on to him, however, and at last he slowed down and waved it on. As the other car came up, Gibson’s son, who was sitting with him, looked round and cried, “Oh, Dad, it’s the inspector 1” “I will treat this like the other cases,” said the Magistrate. “£5 and costs.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 201, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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