MOTORIST SENT TO GAOL

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25738, 25 February 1949, Page 10

MOTORIST SENT TO GAOL

NEGLIGENCE CAUSING DEATH (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 23. , "If the first offence had stood alone, I would have been disposed to think the case could have been properly met by a fine, but after a collision, you failed to i take steps to ascertain that you had inI jured one person and killed another,” said Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court, ! Invercargill, to-day, when Thomas Joseph Boyle, aged 24, a farm labourer, of Heddon Bush, appeared for sentence. Boyle had been found guilty on three counts: (1) negligent driving, causing the death of Alan Ronald Malcolm, aged 14, of Winton; (2) failing to ascertain if he had injured any person; and (3) failing to render assistance to an injured person. On the first count, Boyle was fined £5O, in default imprisonment for not more than two months. On the second and third counts, he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, the terms to be concurrent. Boyle’s driving licence was cancelled, and he was prohibited from | obtaining another for 12 months. | The case was a sequel to a collision on I Christmas Eve on the Winton road be- | tween a car and two cyclists. Alan Ronald Malcolm was killed, and his brother, Kenneth Malcolm, aged 17, was injured.