MAGISTRATE’S COURT Careless Driver Fined £10; Hit Parked Car

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30506, 30 July 1964, Page 13

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Careless Driver Fined £10; Hit Parked Car

After running into a parked car in Auburn street on May 5. a car driven by the defendant hooked on to the front bumper of the other vehicle and pulled it along the road for about 24ft, Traffic Officer j F. McKee told Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The defendant then reversed his car and drove off. Before the Court was Harry Jones, aged 43, a shoe operator (Mr M. J. Glue), who pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to stop after an accident, and guilty to a charge of careless driving. The charge of failing to stop after an accident was dismissed, and Jones was fined £lO on the other charge. Mr Glue said that Jones became flustered after hitting the other vehicle, but returned to the scene after parking his own car. "A person must stop after an accident, having regard to «1 the circumstances,” the Magistrate said. “However, the defendant did return to the scene after parking his car.” The Magistrate refused an application by Mr Glue for costs on the charge of failing to stop. The charge had been properly laid, and was dismissed on the narrowest of margins, he said. On the charge of careless driving, the Magistrate said the defendant was travelling too fast. It was bad driving. DROVE DANGEROUSLY Ernest Edward Mayes, aged 57, an engineer, was fined £lO and disqualified from driving for one year when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving in a dangerous manner in Yaldhurst road on May 30. “At 3 p.m. the defendant shot out of Carmen road onto Yaldhurst road,” said Traffic Officer B. K. Mcßride. “He drove through the compulsory stop governing the intersection at 35 miles an hour when his vision to the left was obscured by a hedge 9ft high There was no traffic about at the time.”

The defendant said he had been tired after working more than 12 hours.

CARELESS DRIVING Charged with driving carelessly on the Main North road through Belfast on May 7 Cohn Barrington, aged 50, a share milker (Mr G. C P Beadel), was fined £lO after pleading guilty. Traffic Officer J. Middleton said that Barrington was driving south through Belfast when he turned right into a private gateway. He gave no signal that he intended to turn, and was hit by another vehicle. Both cars were badly damaged, and the defendant’s car went into a ditch.

‘The defendant made no signal because he thought the other car was well away,” said Mr Beadel. ‘The other car must have been speeding.” IGNORED COMPULSORY STOP On a charge of failing to stop at a compulsory stop on April 14, Thomas Clyde Rogers, a baker, was fined fa and disqualified from driving for three months. Rogers did not appear. Traffic Officer B. K. Mcßride said he was driving along Memorial avenue when he s ** w a van being driven through the compulsory stop at Grahams road. Its speed was about 30 miles an hour. Visibility was bad at this corner. CARELESS DRIVING Charged with careless driving in Sawyers Arms road on May 2, Colin Frederick White, a printer, was fined £6 and his licence was endorsed for two years. A car in the middle of the road flashed its beam on full into oncoming traffic, said Traffic Officer B. K. Mcßride. The car’s course was erratic, and when he stopped the driver he found he had been drinking, and escorted him home. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES

In other prosecutions by the Transport Department the following were fined:— Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Milne David Barrymore Jellie, £5; George Harold Smith, £2; Neil Robin Craythorne, £6 (no driver’s licence, £5); Peter James Fairbairn, £6; David Henry Oliver Harper, £4; Gordon Leslie Leith, £5; Ronald Lindsay McNicholl, £5; Graham Alan Mills, £5; Peter John Samms, £5; William Joseph Sherlock, £6; Garth William Street, £4; Royce Winston Syme, £4; Kevin Alan Whitby, £5; Ross Barnes, £4; Arnold Thomas Bell, £4; Joan Margaret Bigwood, £4; Leslie Sheat Black-

more. £4; Stewart Duncan Brown, £3; Charles William Arthur Cairns, £3; John William Dando, £5; James Douglas Faith, £5; Alan Freeman, £4; James Thorp Gregg, £4; Audrey Doreen Guy, £4; Marie Hancox, £4: Shirley George Hensley, £4; Alex Jackson, £5; Malcolm Alfred Jacobs, £4; Dennis Claude Keenan, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £1); John David Knowles, £4; Johannes Theodoras Lebrun, £2; Peter Ward, £4: Hubertus Geradus Kraak, £4; Graeme Bruce Monk, £6; Betty Lillian Northchott, £4; James Lewis Olds, £4: Alan Walter Pitt, £4; Charles Reginald Price, £4; Clifford Leonard Rate, £4; Desmond Durham Sheriff, £4; Ross Noel Simpson, £2; David Stewart Taylor, £5; Leo Carl Taylor, £5; Jacob Visser, £4; Douglas Harold Wishart, £4: Robert John Woodside, £3; Glen Roderick Alborn, £4; Ronald Keith Ayers, £4; Raymond Bray, £4; Graham Roy Clothier, £4; Noel Francis Coutts, £4; Anne Stephanie Freeman, £a; Jorgen Elmer Kristiason, £4; Baxter David McEown,

£4; Charles Edward McVeigh, rX°b ert Albert Pfenniger, rl’ Thomas Cecil John Reese, £4; James lan Simpson, £5; Brian Victor Thom, £6; John Roger Thorn, £6; Clifford Stephen Waites, £4; Terence Walton, £2 (passing on intersection, £4); Peter Ward, £4 Insufficient lights: Isaac Construction Company, Ltd £5 (no safety chain, £3, excessive length of vehicle and r ’ S ): Anthon y Charles Walter Mayo, £3; Stevensons Motors, Ltd., £3 (trailer not i S^ red ’ £5) : Mervyn Frederick Gamsford, £5; Brian Nigel Wayne Hooper, £2 (carrying pillion passenger contrary to conditions of licence, £2). Failing to stop at stop Stanley William Gawler, £3. Robert Ritchie Mitchell, Alexander William Per- . James Frederick Smyth, £3; William Eric Still,

Failing to give way at giveway sign: Maurice Pimm, £8 (tailing to produce driver’s licence, £5).

Proceeding before the way Anthony John li^ a Z ains t traffic bert Thomas GranT& S o“ : £3 JaniCe Vict ° ria Failing to give way on pedSS an . , mossing: Wilfred Frederick Adams, £5. Exceeding 55 miles an hour: Trevor Vernon Lovett,

or imaged tyre. Anthony David Whineray, £5.

Failing to keep to left: Brian William Hastie, £5 No warrant of fitnessThomas Joseph Master’ Chamberlain, convicted and discharged (no heavy-traffic licence, convicted and discharged); Donald Victor Maffey, £3; William Noel Ikidd, £2; Kenneth Harris, £3 (failing to produce driver’s licence, £1); Evan Francis Hccse, £3; Kevin Moama Jarden, £1 (permitting use of unlicensed vehicle, £5); Robin Lockwood McAllister, £1; Peter Lloyd Machirus, £3; Ronald William Pickett, £2; lan Howard Robinson, £2 (failing to stop at stop sign, £3); Ronald Percy Smith, £1; Colin Lambert Sutton, £2Raymond Royal Ware, £5 : Alfred Welsh, £1 (no warrant of fitness for trailer £l, no driver’s licence £1); Peter James Brown, £1; Larry Jasper Salt, £2; John Robert Bloomfield, £2; William Adrian Clifton-Mogg, £1; Corrie Dedvers Dodge, £1; Cyril William Hancock, £1; Colin Clifford Hurrell, £5; Derek Jan Wynveld, £2; Harold William Jessop, £2; McKay Earthmovers, Ltd., £2; Graham John Robinson, £1 (failing to display licence sticker, £1); Francis Joseph Rush, £3; Lester Mackwell James Savage, £2.

Exceeding statutory axle weight; Raymond Sydney Payne, £5 (failing to carry heavy-traffic licence, £5). Trailer not safely secured to car: Leonard Gracey MacInnes, £5.

Failing to carry heavytraffic licence: Freeman Lamont Holmes, £3; Ronald Richards, £2 (failing to carry certificate of fitness, £2). No heavy-traffic licence: Ansen Pileff, £3; David Arthur Mcßeth, £2 (falling to carry vehicle authority, £1). Failing to produce driver’s licence: Powhiri Love, £2; Frederick Raymond Smith, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £5). Failing to display licence sticker: Peter Stancey Marriott, £1; Waddell Construction, Ltd., £3 (no heavy-traffic licence £3, failing to carry certificate of fitness £3). Exceeding heavy-traffic licence: R. R. Price, Ltd., £5. No certificate of fitness for heavy vehicle: Owen Francis Stopforth, £3. Failing to carry certificate of fitness: Durhams Transport, Ltd, £3. No rear red lights: Cedric John Beswarick, £3; Eric Brailsford Black, £3 (no warrant of fitness for trailer, £1). Failing to dip lights: Henry Caiki Baker, £5. Failing to wear spectacles: Jessie Whitehead, £3. Lights wrongly adjusted: Hylton Clifford Wright, £3. Defective silencer: Wayne Phillip Clark, £3. Carrying pillion passenger on power-cycle: Gary James Cook, £2. Wrong class of driver’s licence: Bruce Hateley, £2. No tail-light on bicycle: Allistair Douglas Campbell, £l. Carelessly riding bicycle: Patrick Michael Prendergarst, £l. Using driver’s licence to which extraneous matter was added: Gary Leslie Smith, £l. REMANDED Joan Audrey Jensen, aged 42, a domestic (Mr R. G. Blunt), was remanded on bail to August 13 on a charge of the theft on July 25 at Lyttelton of £5, the property of Henry Ernest James Rowe. Lenore Manning, aged 43, was remanded on bail until August 6 on a charge of false pretences as to the value of a cheque for £l2 7s 6d given to Regent Gowns, Ltd, on April 27. (Before Messrs F. J. C. Dann and C. J. G. Goode, Justices of the Peace)

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Joseph Maraki, aged 25, a workman, was committed to the Supreme Court' for trial on a charge of burglary on July 14. Maraki (Mr W. A. Wilson) pleaded not guilty. He was allowed bail. Eric Carsley Morrin, manager of Auto Specialists, Ltd, said that the company’s premises in Montreal street were broken into and a radio and about 10s worth of pennies were taken.