NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 8

NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE.

PASSENGER DIES INJURIES. COLLISION IN GREAT, SOrTw < ROAD. 3 An accident in Great Sotufc Eojthe nigl* of September IS fest, j D a motor oar striK-k rhe rear of a «tati ary motor bus. and a piseengej- » former !;i»r died of injuries, had sequel in irial this mominj * fore Mr Ju?Sice Herdman «f JohnjjJ** O'Hanlon. on .a charge of neg]ige ß^ ?i ing so as to caaise death. Mr. Meredith prosecuted, and )|x lars appeared i.<r the accused. " Opening the rsase for the Croirx u Meredith said th* case was one of which was coming before the oourfc Jjf* painful frequency. The mattering. 11 lie examined care Sully by the jarr motor car was a means of grave din unless carefully haindled. The fa«s the present ease w«re iha* about 10 n on the date in question, lie accueej , driving down Great South Baad wards the llarp of Erin. an( j him-a Mr Bernard Hosiaux. A noTl bus had pulled up at the corner of Grea Lane and Great Soinii Boad. It * fully lighted, and the last passenger kj just alighted when there to* a erasi . the rear. A motor car then went p a '- ai a high rate of speed and die* about TO yank further down the w The driver of the bus went after the caj and tiie accused moved off to teWflor,' a doctor. Tlw car was badly ca£jJ and the deceased was suffisring fro B fracture of the skull. He tia« 4 the hospital in, another motor car died 10 days lajer. The evidence irotiii show- that the aocused was not under -i. influence of liquosr, and it would, therefore, appear that iie had been talkie the deceased, and had not piriitj attention to his drb-ing. Lengthy evidence on these lines k pro. ceeding. "