NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
ffl- CLERGYMAN FINED £25. iff; (P&JSBS ASSOCIATION KUIOB^K.) Jfe WELLINGTON, June 26. iM!**?- 1 ; Afc a result of a collision on the road, near Kaiwarra, t>n Easter m;"i Hfcaday, Canon Percival Ernest Janles prosecuted to-day for negligent and fined £25. Mill ' Canon James, wlio bad bis wife ana Sgra'-.AWtber relative in the ca», had first mWLnnsuia out of the line of traffic ana car when a collision oo between the car and a motorcarrying two people, who weie injured. Canon James himJ"®* also injured and absent from :|Hl4litios for five fweeks. Magistrate, reviewing the case, he thoiiglit the real cause ol the BHHlpbdbnt was Canon James's negligence mSw&L 4ririug as he bad on the wrong ■japPf* the road when cond.tions were to do so. , . . mßßfimmt Tread well submitted that m the HKlfiltiit case the mere fact that a ton " mm** had been entered would be a ■HnWirignt penalty. " ~ f ■BBgWw Magistrate, however, said tuax. had been injured and might ■Sfciibt. been killed. Defendant's act had PPparfr been nfgluje.it and dangerous. ff®P?*ould have to be. fined a subKJSrMtnl amount.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20274, 27 June 1931, Page 25
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NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20274, 27 June 1931, Page 25
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