BOTH PROSECUTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 3

BOTH PROSECUTED

MOTORISTS IN COLLISION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DARGAVTLLE, Saturday. Sydnev Leabourn pleaded not guilty in the Police Court to a charge of failing to sound a warning device on his motor cycle, and Charles Vernon Snookcs entered a plea of guilty for failing to •■ive a signal when turning his van oil the main highway at Te Kopuru. The parties were involved in a collision at Te Kopuru. , Snookcs was the first witness called, and he said he heard no warning when he started his vehicle and turned it in the road. He did not see Leabourn until later. Two witnesses corroborated Snookcs' story. Leabourn. in evidence, stated that ho was travelling at about 12 to 15 miles an hour and saw the van moving from a stationary position. He did not think the van would be turning across the road, and consequently pave no warning. The magistrate considered that Leabourn should have sounded his horn, but held Snookes to be as much to blame. The ease against Leabourn was dismissed on payment of costs, 29/, while Snookes was fined 30/ and costs, and allowed a month to pay.