Taxi-Driver Convicted On Traffic Charge

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31159, 8 September 1966, Page 6

Taxi-Driver Convicted On Traffic Charge

For special reasons no cancellation of his driver’s licence was imposed on Henry Timothy Harper, a taxi-driver, when he was convicted by Mr E. S. J. Crutchley S.M., in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of passing in an area of no-passing lines. Harper was fined £5. He pleaded not guilty. He pleaded guilty to a charge of exceeding 55 miles an hour and was fined £5.

Traffic Officer D. W. Simpson said Harper overtook a slow-moving car at the beginning of an area of no-passing lines after leaving the Christ-church-Lyttelton road tunnel. Harper was travelling at about 50 miles an hour and the other car was travelling at 25 miles an hour. Harper crossed the lines for only 100 ft and it was not considered a serious breach. He was later checked at a speed of 75 miles an hour. No

other traffic was around. Harper was in an agitated condition because of an illness he had contracted that day, said Traffic Officer Simpson. TRAFFIC CASES Used unlicensed vehicle: Brian William Stevens, £lO and disqualified for three months; Donald Cargill. £7 10s (no warrant of fitness, £2). No driver’s licence: Peter Franklin Lynch. £5; Raymond William Goodmanson, £3; Henry Peina, £lO and prohibited from obtaining a licence for six months. Failed to keep left: Michael Bede Brown, £1 10s. Parking offence: Barry Daniel Smith, £3. No warrant of fitness: Maxwell Alfred George Lohrev, £l. LICENSING OFFENCE Minor on licensed premises: John William McCartney, £5.