Magistrate's Court Drove At 70 m.p.h. Over Compulsory Stop

Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 15

Magistrate's Court Drove At 70 m.p.h. Over Compulsory Stop

Although Kenneth William Hanaon, aged 29. »’u at present serving a gaol term in Paparua prison, he should not escape the consequences of di* dangerous driving behaviour on July 10, said Mr E. S J Crutchley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday Hanson faced four charges, which fines and costs of £3l were imposed, arising Irons his travelling over a compulsory stop intersection about 70 miles an hour. On a charge of dangerous driving, Hanson was fined --15 and was disqualified from driving for two years He was fined £5 on a charge of having no driving licence. £3 for failing to stop at a compulsory stop sign, and was ordered to pay costs on a cnarge of having no warrant of fitness.

Sergeant B. D. Read said that Hanson was seen by an independent witness to drive his vehicle along Buchanans road at an estimated 70 miles an hour, and to cross over the intersection of Carmen road, through stop signs, without slackening speed Further along, Hanson stopped and after repairing something on his car turned round and returned the way he had come He again ignored the compulsory stop, and this time collided with a van travelling along Carmen road. The van driver suffered head and back injuries, and both vehicles were extensively damaged. Sergeant Read said OBSCENE LANGUAGE For using obscene language in Cathedral square on October 5, Graeme Charles Talbot, aged 19. a window cleaner, was fined £lO. REMANDED Noel James Quirke, aged 20 (Mr G. R. Lascelles) was remanded in custody to October 9 on a charge of breaking and entering the post office at Sefton on October 2 with intent to commit a crime.

DRUNK IN CHARGE OF BICYCLE A 62-year-old man who was arrested after he was seen by a constable weaving from side to side of Marlow road on October 5 pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in charge of a bicycle.

The accused, John Lewis Stalker, a workman, was fined £2 19s.

Sergeant V F. Townshend said that Stalker was obviously under the influence of liquor when a constable saw him cycling in Pages road Stalker then turned into Marlow road and weaved from side to side of the street before he was stopped and arrested. There was a fair amount of traffic at the time, and Stalker was a menace to other road users. INTERFERING WITH CAR On a joint charge of unlawfully interfering with a motor-car at Lyttelton on October 5, Douglas Thomas Cowin, aged ’.9. a seaman, and David John Maggs. aged 17. a seaman, were each fined £5. An order for immediate payment of the fines was made

DROVE DANGEROUSLY James Magnus Lowry, aged 17, a service station attendant, was fined £2O and was disqualified from driving for 18 months, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving in Papanui road on July 29 He was fined £3 on each of two charges of having no driving licence, £1 for having no warrant of fitness. £3 for using an unlicensed vehicle, and £2 for carrying a pillion passenger while restricted to L plates OTHER TRAFFIC CASES On other traffic charges brought by the police offenders were dealt with as follows:—

Using motor-vehicle without due care: Edward Reginald Macann, £5; Arnold Charles Hammar. £5; Clive Illingworth Hindle. £7 10s; William Robert Righton. £5:

Anthony Baring Edwards, £5 (driving vehicle not specified on licence, £4); Keith Snowdon Legge, £5; Harry Maxwell Simpson. £5; Peter Warren Wilson, £5. Failing to give way: Derek Walter Robinson, £5; Andrew Brewis Legge, £5; Charles Wilmot Beazley, £3; James Edward Blair, £5: Frank Bloeman, £4; Cyril Eric Burgess, £5; David Arthur Costello, £5: Martha Laurina Higgs, £7 10s; Hendrick Jansen, £5; Allan Edwin Musik Jemmett, £5: lan Gordon Menzies, £5; Leslie James Orr. £3; Hugh Douglas Whitteley Purchas £3; Paku Neera Rigby, £5 (carrying pillion passenger while restricted to L plates, £3); Anthony Alfred Watkins, £5. No warrant of fitness: Philip Stanley Brown, £ 1 10s.

Failing to give way at sign: WiHiam Geoffrey Agnew, £3. Failing to stop at sign: Leslie James Philip Whittaker, £5. Failing to keep to the left: Robert Edward Young, £3 (no driver’s licence. £3). (Before M* A P Blair, S.M.) DANGEROUS SPEED On a charge of driving at a speed which might havt been dangerous at the intersection of Sherborne and Purchas streets on July 14 David John Hooper, aged 22 a driver (Mr D J Hill), was fined £lO. His driving licence was suspended for three months Hooper pleaded not guilty. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Neil Henry Harris of proceeding before the way was clear at a stop sign was dismissed 'Before Mr E A. Lee. S.M.) DROVE WITHOUT DUE CARE Sydney Ramsay Connor, a company director (Mr B McClelland), was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of using a motor-car without due care and attention in Cashel street on July 13. The Magistrate said it was not a grave charge in the circumstances. Charges against Connor of failing to stop after an accident and failing to ascertain if any person had been injured were dismissed. “On the evidence I am satisfied the defendant did not know his car had been involved in the accident,” the Magistrate said.