"BAD DRIVER."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 14

"BAD DRIVER."

SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT. S.M. CASTIGATES FARMER. % That will teach you to drive better in future. You are a very had driver, lou hit one car and then continued on. and later you were found jokin"- about it. said Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M./ i„ ,he 1 olice (curt yestevdav afternoon wlier convicti.i- Carl Phillip Turner, fa renin nu <rer. of Matakana. and ordering hin, to pay costs amounting to £14 .">/. Turner pleaded guilty to a char-'p of danjrerous drivinjr at' Dairv Flat on Decern her 27. The magistrate remarked that 1 inner had already heen fairlv heavily punished by having to nav sueii larjre costs. An indictable charge of failing cfop after beiji<r involved in an accident \va ; withdrawn at the surest ion of the majjUti ate. Car Pursued. Sub-Tnspect or Kl.ina.i-an said Turner was drivinjr his ear towards Auckland at 5.4.> p.m. on Monday. December -7. and passed another car near Silverdale at a speed of between ."HI and .V> inih per hour, l-'ive minutes' later at l)air\ Ila t his far collided with a !i<it Iter cur driven ill the opposite direction hv Mr. \\ . H. 'Whitrfe. The impact was a glancing one and Turner's car continued on at ti f.ist >peed and with the lights out. Another motoric pi:Y- accused's ear and did not catch up to it until the Devonport vehicular ferry was reached. I here those in the car were heard jokiitfr about the collision. Accused's car was followed into (,»uav Street, city, where it almost collided with a bus. While defendant admitted that lie was travelling at a hiirh speed, said Mr. C. H. M. W ills, who appeared for him. he considered his speed was not more than 40 miles per hour. There was little traffic on the road which was wide nnd in ;;ood order. Turner did stop after the slight collision, for he had t.> adjust a bent mudguard which was touching a tyre and also reconnect the li«hts w'uich were extinguished bv the collision. Heinir assured by others in his ear that little damage had heen done and that the other ear did not stop. Turner started off on the jourue.v to Auckland.

" Punier lias brought upon himself much trouble iind expense.''' said Mr. Wills, referring to defendant's nonappearance to answer the charge a fortnight ago.

The magistrate said that in view of tin- heavy costs involved, he could not very well impose a fine upon defendant. Turner's license was endorsed and lie was warned that lie would lose it alto "ether if he did not observe all the rules of the road.