Magistrate’s Court MOTORIST FINED £10; LICENCE SUSPENDED

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29222, 4 June 1960, Page 7

Magistrate’s Court MOTORIST FINED £10; LICENCE SUSPENDED

attempting to overtake a turning right on the Main Snrth road at Belfast on the morning of April 4, Arie Peter rLrfigheid, a Cust garage procrashed into a roadside Sje, careered into a hedge, and Cotinued on up the road pursued v. Constable J. Thompson, of Sfast, until finally stopped in road, over the Waimakariri Jrer brld^ e ' ■ . This evidence was given m the Magistrate's Court yesterday when tugtigheid was charged before vr E. A. Lee, S.M., with driving without due care and attention. Lugtigheid, who did not appear, was convicted and fined £lO and jjjs driver’s licence was suspended igt six months. Constable Thompson gave evidence that he was in the Belfast ' police Station, on the corner of factory road, about 7.55 a.m. on tpril 4 when he heard a loud jang, and, looking out the window, saw Lugtigheid’s car ricochet off a roadside pole, and run into a hedge. “I went out expecting to pick up a corpse, but saw the car back out from the hedge, and continue on up the Main North road," Constable Thompson said. He gave chase in his own car, dually stopping Lugtigheid in Tram road. His car was extensively damaged along the right side. Lugtigheid’s only explanation was that he was in a hurry to get to his garage at Cust, where he lad a client waiting. Alistair Taylor Robb, a clerk employed by the Canterbury frozen Meat Company, Ltd., at Belfast, gave evidence that he had been about to turn right from the Main North road into Factory road, after having signalled with his arm, when he heard “a scream of brakes.” and saw another car “flash past" his right front, crash into a roadside pole, and career into a hedge. The car then backed out from the hedge on to the road, and continued on. In a statement made to the police and read to the Court, Lugtigheid claimed he was travelling at 30 to 35 miles at the time of the accident, and had not seen the other driver’s signal. “I must have panicked with the shock of the accident.” said Lugtigheid, explaining why he drove on. CAR HIT ARTICULATED TRUCK After colliding with a heavy articulated truck which he attempted to pass on Moorhouse avenue as it was making a right-hand turn. Stanley Lindsay, aged 55, a blacksmith’s striker, did not stop because he considered his car was so small and the truck so big that he could not have done any damage to it. Lindsay gave this explanation to the police when charged with failing to stop after an accident on April 14, Sergeant E. S. Tuck told the Court. Lindsay, who pleaded guilty through Mr J. E. Millar, was convicted and fined £7 10s, and his driver’s licence suspended for three months.

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FAILED TO STOP *°, r faihn g !° st °P af t e r a car accident in Victoria street about p.m. on March 26, Leslie Raymond Collins, aged 19, a panel beater, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined £5, and his “river’s licence was suspended for three months.

On a further charge of driving without due care, to which he also pleaded guilty, Collins was convicted and fined £5, with three months’ suspension of his driver’s licence.

CYCLIST KNOCKED FROM BICYCLE Not only was Walter Lawrence Short, aged 60, double parked in Tuam street on April 19, but he opened his car door without looking, and knocked a cyclist off his bicycle, said Sergeant E. S. Tuck, when Short pleaded guilty to opening the car door in a manner liable to cause injury to others.

“After being knocked from his bicycle, the unfortunate man was struck by an oncoming car, and was admitted to hospital with severe head and arm injuries,” Sergeant Tuck said.

Short was convicted and fined £3.

HEAD-ON COLLISION Approaching the bend where Linwood avenue ends and Humphreys drive begins, Graeme William Rothwell, aged 19, a student, cut the corner and collided head-on with an oncoming car, said Sergeant Tuck. Rothwell was convicted and fined £4, and his driver’s licence was suspended for three months when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving without due care on April 4. HIT GIRL CYCLIST

Turning right into Linwood avenue from Gloucester street on February 25, a motorist, Gerald Daymond, had knocked over a girl cyclist riding nor”' along Linwood avenue, said Sergeant Tuck. He stopped, but, after inquiring whether the girl was injured, did not give his name or address.

Daymond was convicted and fined £3 for driving without due care and attention, and £4 for failing to advise his name and address. FAILED TO REPORT ACCIDENT

After striking a woman pedestrian on Yaldhurst road about 7.45 p.m. on April 16, lan Ross Atkinson took her to her home, but did not report the accident until Anzac Day, by which time he had learnt the police were inquiring for him. Atkinson, who did not appear, was convicted and fined £5 for failing to report the accident, and £1 for driving his car without a warrant of fitness. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES

On other traffic charges, brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows:

Driving without due care.— Michael Richard Ellis, £5 and driver’s licence suspended for three months but permitted to drive in the course of his employment; Gordon Robert Elcock, £6 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Peter William Everest, £4; Robert Scott Grey, £3; Gerald Augustus Parnham Mein, £4; Ernest Arthur Rogers, £4; Frederick James Rose, £2 10s; Francis Van Der Ven, £5, driver’s licence suspended for three months; Marie Edith Wear, convicted and discharged. Failing to give way to right.— Alexander Roy Forsyth, £5; Frederick William Fever, £5: Wilfred Vernon Leake, £5; William Henry Schuster, £5. Failing to obey traffic lights.— lan Hislop, £5. Opening car door liable s to cause injury.—Brian Geoffrey Booth. £3.

No driver’s licence.—Collin Robert Keith, £1 (no warrant of fitness, £3); Dibor Rajnai, £1 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Alan Charles Traylor, £2. No warrant of fitness.—Hilton Mako, costs only (no licence displayed, £2); Aide Gowda Ware, £1; John Irwin Newstead, costs only. No certificate of fitness. —Donald McDonald, £5. Delivering car with no warrant of fitness.—Francis Ross Hussey, £2 REMANDED Dennis Johnston, aged 59, charged with theft of goods, valued at 19s lid from Woolworth’s, Ltd.’s, Sydenham store on June 2, was remanded to June 9, bail being allowed at £25, with a similar surety.