MOTORIST CHARGED.
CRASH INTO COFFEE STALL
ACCUSED SENT FOR TRIAL.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday,
A charge that, while intoxicated in charge of a motor car in Armagh Street on July 12, he caused bodily harm to Roy Tentcden Frazcr, was preferred against James Robert Pirie, salesman, in the Chritstchurch Police Court to-day. The alleged offence arose out of a motor car crashing into a coffee stall at the side of the street at 12.15 a.m. Frazer, who was in the stall, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and severe shock. His evidence in the case was taken by the magistrate at the hospital.
Witnesses to-day stated that the epeed of accused's car was from 25 to 35 miles an hour, and that the speed did not slacken until the ear struck the coffee stall. The weather was very clear.
Police witnesses and Dr. Seott, who examined him, said accused was certainly intoxicated.
Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 21
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