FATAL COLLISION
IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR
INTOXICATED MOTORIST SENTENCED
(PBSSS ASSOCIATION TKLKGBAU.) DUNEDIN, February, 14. “A person in your condition, should never drive a motor-car,” said Mr Justice Kennedy in sentencing Leslje Raymond West, aged 30 years, to~* imprisonment with hard labour for 21: months on a charge that; being in charge of a«motor vehicle while in a state of intoxication, he caused the death of one young man and bodily injury to another. » His Honour added: “Roads become death-traps for Innocent people and .are attended with intolerable danger if intoxicated people are permitted to continuer to drive.” The case is that in which a young motor-cyclist, William Eric Johnston, Was killed by a car driven by the prisoner near Waitati. Edward Hayward, a pillion-rider, was Injured.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 16
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