BOTTLE THROWN AT PATROL CAR
Pillion Passenger Fined £lO
(New Zealand Press Association) TAUPO, March 21.
Pursued by a patrol car at 88 miles an hour on the WairakeiAtiamuri State highway a motorcyclist’s pillion passenger who was drinking from a beer-bottle threw the bottle in the path of the pursuing car. The bottle exploded and showered the car with glass and beer. / Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., said in the Taupo Magistrate’s Court that it was the worst case of dangerous speeding he had ever encountered. He fined William Warena Curtis, aged 22, a workman, £5O, disqualified him from driving for three years, and said only his comparative youth saved him from going to gaol. His pillion passenger, John de Thierry, aged 21, a workman, who threw the bottle, was fined £lO and costs..
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 15
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