INTOXICATED IN CAR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 179, 13 May 1935, Page 6

INTOXICATED IN CAR

GIRL CYCLIST KNOCKED DOWN. SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY IMPOSED MAN OBSTRUCTS .CONSTABLE. ■ ,• tPer Press Association). WAIMATE, This Day. A car that contained two men was pursuing an erratic course down High Street, on the wrong side of the road, ahout 7 o'clock on Saturday evening when it ran into Phyllis Callendar, aged 15, who was cycling on the edge of the bitumen. The girl was carried about 100 feet before she dropped to the ground, and the car proceeded nearly 200 yards, dragging the cycle, before the driver stopped. In the meantime an ambulance had been summoned and the girl, who had suffered a fractured leg, concussion and shock, was being lifted in when the motorists walked back and watched the proceedings. When the ambulance left the motorists started the car and drove pffi, but landed in a ditch outside the town, where the car was bogged. The police arrived shortly after and arrested the pair. Before Justices of the Peace this morning Leonard Fogarty, a radio salesman, aged 31, of Oamaru, was fined £l6 10s and costs, in default one month, for driving while intoxicated, and was convicted and discharged for driving without a license. He was also ordered to pay compensation, £8 10s. Thomas James Crosbie, a farm labourer, aged 31, the passenger in the ear, Was fined £4 for hindering a constable in the execution of his duty.