Are there muffins?
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, June 14.
Mrs Viola Ireland drove off from her home, a vicarage in Hampshire, for tea with friends in Winchester.
On her way there, the 78-year-old widow drove the wrong way down a motorway, got stuck on the centre reservatiort when attempting a U-turn and narrowly missed a truck. On her way back she again drove the wrong way down the same motorway, caused a crash when another car swerved to avoid her and almost hit a police car. When finally stopped by: police, the Basingstoke Court was told, she said to a police- j man: “I have been in a big hotel and had a nice tea.” I Mrs Ireland was banned (from driving for three years ;and ordered to take another driving test if she wanted to drive again. She was fined $7O. “I use my little car every dav—now I don’t know what I’ll' do.” she said after the 1 hearing. “Perhaps I’ll take up, cycling until I can drive again.”
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33254, 18 June 1973, Page 6
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