NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE
NAPIER M.P. FINED
(New Zealand Press Association.) NAPIER, August 29. A charge of driving negligently on the Napier-Hastings highway was brought against Arthur Ernest Armstrong, member of Parliament for Napier, in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Armstrong pleaded guilty, and was fined £7 10s, with 10s costs, by Mr L. H. G. Sinclair, S.M. Senior-Sergeant W. R. Miller said that Armstrong was driving towards Napier at 5.45 p.m. on Saturday, August 13, when his car swerved to the right four feet across the centre line of the road and struck a car driven by Stanley Frederick Addis, of Waipawa. No one was hurt and damage was confined to th>e mudguards of both vehicles.
Mr H. W. Dowling, for Armstrong, said that the defendant was in a hurry to get back to Napier to take a Ministerial call and thought he might have been late. He reached across to save a fragile parcel which was in danger of falling out when the door of the dashboard compartment opened and momentarily took his attention from driving.
Mr Dowling said that statements by traffic officials and others rebutted rumours that had spread since the accident. There was no evidence of the defendant’s having taken liquor before the accident.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25895, 30 August 1949, Page 3
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