PEDESTRIANS ON MOTORWAY
First Prosecutions In New Zealand
iNtw Zeaiana Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 21.
In the first prosecutions of their kind reported in New Zealand two men were charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Dtahuhu today with being on a motorway other than in a vehicle.
They were ordered to pay 30s costs only by Mr W. S. Spence, S.M., who said that if pedestrians did not keep off motorways they would have to be coerced into doing so.
The Court was told that recently there had been two fatal accidents involving pedestrians on Auckland’s motorways and _ the prosecutions were designed to warn people about walking on them.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28980, 22 August 1959, Page 4
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