UNFIT TO DRIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 24 September 1934, Page 8

UNFIT TO DRIVE.

CRIPPLED WOMAN, j CANTERBURY PROSECUTION. | PATHETIC PLEA MADE. ! (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Declared bv traffic inspectors to be unfit to drive a car, Mrs. Ethel S. Wilson, a partial cripple, who was wheeled into Court in a chair, was disqualified from driving for five years by Air. E. D. Moslcv, S.M., this morning. Mrs. Wilson appeared in response to a City Council prosecution to answer a charge of supplying false particulars on an application form for a license, having failed to inform the Springs County Council clerk that the City Council had refused her a license. Defendant, who was liable to a £o0 fine 011 the charge, was convicted and ordered to pay costs. Under the Motor Regulations the magistrate imposed the five years' disqualification, subject to review should Mrs. Wilson's physical condition justify her in making a fresh application. Counsel for the defence said the circumstances were pathetic. The woman had had a bad accident, and was a partial cripple. Now the use of her car was the only pleasure she had. She maintained that she was capable of driving it. Counsel for' the City Council said the council did not want to be hard 011 Mrs. Wilson, but as many complaints had been received about her driving it was felt that she should be kept off the road. The magistrate said Mrs. Wilson had not solely to be considered. The safety of other people had also to be taken into account.