MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29082, 19 December 1959, Page 18

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.MJ 1 CHARGE DISMISSED J “It is quite obvious you droW a bit too fast and panicbM Rhodes and he took it out' Cl you afterwards; you have taNI your punishment, and you Mt Rhodes had better go away «■ forget all about it,” the Majlb trate told Jan Marie Heir.ri® Geesink, aged 29, a weldeh a The defendant, who was no| represented, pleaded not guil|| to a charge of dangerous driWs ing in the driveway of J.'KerM and Sons, Ltd.,* MoorhoM avenue, on October 21. * In dismissing the charge wiM out calling the defendant to evidence, the Magistrate told prosecutor (Sergeant V. F. TojJ shend) that he hoped no chffß of assault through the incid«| would be laid. Evidence that he had hadW run along the drive to avoid defendant's car was given ■■ Eric Rhodes, a fitter and turtlj| employed by Merger's. He CM he had been sitting on a ken by the side of the drive wtt| other employees in the luMl period He had started to wSI( away to go into the premiM when he heard a vehicle cotnM over the footpath into the driw way. He turned to see the vehicle coming straight for him and took fright and tried le avoid it, but the car again swtinf into his path. In a statement produced M Constable W. McCullough the d* fendant said that as his vehicle approached Rhodes in the drill he jumped aside. He said Rho*j| used language when he stoppM the car. and later Rhodes strut* him twice over the eye. (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.MJ DROVE WITHOUT CAREJ Pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention, Peter Graeme Eden, a soMisr, aged 19, was fined £5. Colin Rex Harris was finM £lO for driving without due cart and attention on October 8. '■ DRIVING CHARGE DISMISSED , “I am left in some dow| whether the defendant's drivtof conduct failed to measure up t» what was required of him and accept counsel's view that the matter can best be decided be civil proceedings.” said the Magistrate when he dismissed • charge against Walter Alexander Yates (Mr W. F. Brown) of driving without due care and attention on October 24. On a charge of having no warrant of fitness a fine of 10s #»• imposed. Sergeant Tuck said that p.m. on Saturday, October ■ Yates was driving north on M Main North road at Belfast. At Donegal street Yates went turn right and there was a cM lision with a car coming soutM Four people were injured. said. * 9 Mr Brown said Yates thouJM he had ample time to turn at® then when he was turning iit> 4 Donegal street two boys ran across the road in front of him-

“He slowed down even wort or else he would have hit boys. He glanced to the and saw the other car very D®**: He did not know how it there so quickly," Mr Bro*® said. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES L On other traffic charges by the police offenders dealt with as follows: L, Failing to give way: Claire Tasker. £3; Lens Gy Price, £2 (no driving costs); Gordon James McCusi* £3; Trevor James Gray, £«l g Vernon Musson. £3; Lesli* Jr ward Odgers. £5; Heather W* 1 1 £3 (no driving licence, | Using veh.cle before receW™ ownership certificate: William® 0 ' ward Galbraith. £l. j Failing to notify change ownership: Neil Robertson. **• I No warrant of fitness: Vivi® 8 Trevor Long, £2.