CARELESS DRIVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9

CARELESS DRIVING.

HIGH SPEEO AT SHARP BEND. •>R£CKLESS AND UNFORGIVABLE." MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. ■ T.y h —Otrn Correspondcst WAXHANTI. this dny. William Henry •f.incs. a jockry. and Bcnja'nin June*, a plasterer. « rr* ."\. a •"£■«"<! •' the P'lu-c t<>urt to-day «ri;h rerkiCfflv d::».::p .5 car and failing 'o ftoji ;<r.j p.\< narr. ■- and hJ-drc--se- af;.r m accident had acc-orrr-d. I' v. a- a''.'i2».i ;'ua: a rar in which df fen«iarits urn , t:a\clhn£ struck « rar in whi.h SeninT .-crpc ant L":«doll atvl ( Mn'ia'ilc Itogcr were brinjrng a K>tiy frrnn Kakat.ih: to Wanpanni. S< rnor-Scrgrar.i Lopdell saii bo »a« travelling at :Jft mi)r> an hour when !>•• first !:<-arii defendant -■" car. liy the time the defendants reached the. elbow of a i-harp hrnd they started to turn into the orntrp of ! Iμ- road. The rea- of defendants' rar smirk the caf if his front whet-1. the bun.p deflecting •β-itnpsf' car from it? course. Defendants <iid not stop htit increased th<'ir speed. i>rfendarit*' paid the dainajrc , t< Ihr car. amounting to £2 4 i. Further alonj: tlnroad »i!wm rapt a t>ett]fr who had had <>n<- of hif «iop» injured by defendant' rar. Bonjaniin .Icinc sanl hp fc3ect<-j a •wide l«nd to pa*.* ihe tcrgrant'* rar. Hi , felt no hum], at the time and that mawhy he did not tifrji. tre\elled afu-r that at from 23 to l"i mile* an hour. He did not remember hitting a do£. To the Senif>r-. Serpen n J. Jone* saiii tbey left .Vairakei that morn in p. Thry reached W&nga.nui at 7.30 ji.in. The olher dcfendani said lhry left TokaACu at 1.45 p.m. and roa>h<J Rartihi at sJio p.m. The Magi.-lrate said that dffendanl" apparently covered 92. miles in four hour? over t-ome of the road' in the Xorlh Island. He had no reasonable doubt that the charge of neplipent driving Lad lioen fully proved and that theV roiuraitted a and unforgivatilr* artiojj in pullicg round a left hand lici:d at that f-jK-od. Benjariiin .lone-, was then rnrvirted pf nep-liprnt dri inp and fined £7 10/. ard wilne*<" expent*et, £2 11,. It i»a* aUo directed that a note of the t-onvicliun l>e rjidored t>n has lirensp. , The charge against \V. H. fonts, the owner of the car. was di*m ; SM-d.