PEDESTRIAN CROSSING OFFENCE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22359, 24 March 1938, Page 8

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING OFFENCE

MOTOR-CYCLIST PASSES CAR ON WRONG SIDE

(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGUAM,)

AUCKLAND, March 23.

“If this were an older man, I would fine him in such a way that it would call the attention of the public to the serious nature v of the offence,” said Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., when a young motor-cyclist, Lloyd Taylor, was charged in the Magistrate'#: Coui't with overtaking traffic on tfce wrong

side and also passing a stopped vehicle on a pedestrian crossing. , A traffic inspector said that he saw two blind men being guided across an authorised traffic crossing, near the Institute for the Blind. A car driven by an Auckland Magistrate, Mr W. R. McKean, had stopped. Taylor, who had a pillion rider, passed Mr McKean’s stopped car on the wrong side. Referring to the second charge, the Magistrate said no one could imagine a more dangerous action. He lined Taylor £l, with 10s costs, on the first charge, and £5, with similar costs, on the second.