RELIABILITY TRIAL DRIVER FINED
ACCIDENT ON WEST COAST (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, March 7. A competitor in the Southland Centennial motor-car reliability trial, Robert Alexander Robertson, was fined £2 by Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth today when he was convicted on a charge of failing to keep to the left. Senior-Sergeant T. Doole said Robertson had driven round a bend at high speed on the wrong side of the road and had collided with another car travelling in the opposite direction. He had been seriously injured in the accident. Imposing the fine, the Magistrate said the defendant had already suffered severely as a result of the accident.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 7
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