UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
A Ministry of Transport ve-hicle-testing officer spent a week off work with an injured leg after an incident at the Cranford Street station last August, Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., was told in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sergeant R. I. Harlick said that a woman in a line of cars waiting for a vehicle test thought she was in the wrong lane, so reversed her car. The car struck the car immediately behind her. She then drove forward, hitting the car in front of her and causing a chain reaction which jammed a testing officer between two cars and injured his legs. Describing the incident as “extraordinary,” the Magistrate convicted and fined the woman S3O on a charge of careless driving and disqualified her from driving for three months. Doreen Ellen Steward Austin, aged 74. retired (Mr R. F. B. Perry), pleaded guilty by letter to the charge. The Magistrate noted that she had a good driving record. • Mr Perry said that the defendant did not know there was a car behind her and when her car struck It she panicked. When 1 she drove forward her foot 1 missed the brake pedal and she I was unable to avoid colliding ■ with the vehicle in front.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33435, 17 January 1974, Page 7
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