Officers ‘assumed’ driver’s immunity
PA Wellington The son of the Cook Islands representative in New Zealand may be charged with traffic offences if he formally waives the diplomatic immunity granted him after a car accident in Wellington on Friday evening. Mr Mark Short, son of a diplomat, Mr laveta Short, was the driver of a Diplomatic Corps car involved in a collision with a Wellington City Council bus in Miramar about 10 p.m. on Friday. The car then apparently spun out, crossed a pavement and crashed into a concrete wall. Mr Short was taken to
Ministry of Transport headquarters at Pearse House for questioning, where it was discovered he was the son of a diplomat, He was set free after proving his identity, said Senior Traffic Sergeant Tony Collins. The Ministry of Transport and Mr Short’s lawyer, Mr lan Greig, have now emphasised that the diplomat’s son had not claimed immunity under the Vienna Convention. “They (traffic officers) arranged for him to be taken home on the assumption that he had diplomatic immunity,” Mr Greig said.
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