MOTOR CYCLIST LOSES LICENCE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27406, 20 July 1954, Page 13

MOTOR CYCLIST LOSES LICENCE

EVIDENCE OF CHASE AT 86 MILES AN HOUR (New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, July 19. “Nemesis has already caught up with this man—he was involved in a serious accident in February, has been in hospital since then, and it will be a year before he is better,” said Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton today, when James Morrin Ogilvy, a labourer, of Otahuhu, was charged with driving a motor-cycle at a dangerous speed and with exceeding 40 miles an hour while carrying a pillion passenger. Traffic Officer R. W. Wilson said that on December 28, ’Ogilvy, who was carrying a pillion passenger on his motor-cycle, passed him near Pukeroro at an estimated speed of 90 miles an hour. “I reached the majdmum speed of my patrol car, 86 miles an hour, but the motor-cycle left me as though

I was stationary,” the witness said. “It is hard to know what to do with this man,” said the Magistrate. He referred to Ogilvy’s serious accident, and said that he now had only his social security benefit to live on. On the first charge he fined Ogilvy £5, and suspended his driving licence for two years. On the second count he imposed a fine of £l.