NEGLIGENT DRIVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 273, 17 November 1936, Page 9

NEGLIGENT DRIVING.

OTAHUHU CONVICTIONS. THREE MOTORISTS FIXED. In the Police Court at Otahuhu yesterday before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., Kenneth Pipe (Mr. Burton) was charged with negligent driving. Constable Maloney stated that at 8 p.m. on October 3 a man named Parr was walking with his wife along Massey Road, on the edge of the bitumen when he was overtaken and knocked down by a lorry driven by the defendant. Defendant had been dazzled by the lights of a car he had just passed and he failed to see the pedestrians until he was right on top of them. Parr had beep injured and taken to hospital. Mr. Hunt: People need to wear looking glasses on their backs if they want to walk on the roads. In pleading guilty, Mr. Burton stated that his client had been dazzled so badly that he did not see Parr until too late and he pulled over to avoid him. but struck him with the rear part of the truck. He added that if Mr. Semple would introduce a rule making it compulsory to walk oil the right-hand side it would save a lot of trouble. "People should walk on the other side," said Mr. Hunt in fining defendant £1 plus 20/ costs. William Henry Johns (Mr. Holmden) pleaded not guilty to a similar charge. Abraham Cunningham stated that on October 4 he was going south in his car and when nearing Wiri store he saw a car coming round a bend towards him on its wrong side. He had the impression that the car-was out of control, as it seemed to swerve in and then away from him. The defendant in evidence said that he was on his correct side of the road when the tyre blew out and his car swerved across on to the wrong side. He had had a similar experience two years ago with the same result. The magistrate said he was satisfied that defendant had not pulled out in time. However, he would take into consideration the fact that defendant had come from Taumarumii and would fine him £1, plus 32/ costs. A. McQuoid, who had failed to give way to traffic on his right and caused a collision in which little damage was done, was fined £2, plus 12/ c.osts. . YOUNG FARMER FINED. I "LUCKY TO ESCAPE GAOL." (By Telejjrapii.—Press Association.) WAIROA, Monday. "You should consider yourself very lucky, for if a magistrate had been here, you would probably have gone to gaol," said-Mr. J. R. Gillespie, J.P., in the Police Gourt to-day, when Daniel Robert Mullins, "aged 30, farmer, was fined £20/ for being intoxicated in charge of a motor truck, and had Jus license cancelled for three yeais. Accused pleaded guilty. Serjeant Clark said that accused was one of those who might be described as a pest, and it was well ktnown that when there was beer about, he was not very far from it. This was accused's second offence. He was convicted of_ being intoxicated in charge of a vehicle in February, and his license was cancelled for six months. "He obtained a new license on August 14," said Sergeant Clark, "and here he is again. He is a danger' on the road.