HIGH-SPEED CHASE
Youth Drove At 90 m.p.h.
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, April 16, Chased by a traffic officer, Graeme Harold Wright raced hi s car round One Tree Hill and Onehunga streets at speeds between 80 and 90 miles an hour without lights, Sergeant R. S. F. Halpin told Mr W. J. Meade, S.M. Wright, aged 20, a factory hand, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving and was fined £75 and disqualified from driving for four years.
Sergeant Halpin said that the traffic officer used his siren and flashing red light to try to stop Wright. “Instead, Wright doused the car lights and accelerated,” he said. “The chase covered about four miles.”
There were four teen-age passengers in the car. A carton of beer was in the rear passengers’ seat, but Wright told the police he did not have any. Some of the bottles had been freshly emptied.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30727, 17 April 1965, Page 3
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