SEQUEL TO A COLLISION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 150, 19 March 1924, Page 4

SEQUEL TO A COLLISION

STE.UI WAGON DRIVER FINED. David Browning was charged before Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., in the Court yesterday, with negligently driving a steam wagon. According to tihiiior-Sergeant Cox, defendant, wlten passing the Basin Reserve during the progress of the New South Wales cricket match, had been attracted by the cheering and failed to notice tho approach of a tram. The result was a collision, through which the tram was damaged to the extent of £34 6s. 2d. 31r. C. A. L. Treadwell, who represented defendant, declared that every time the Basin Reserve was the scene of a big cricket match tho trams simply "crawled” round the bend, and, no doubt, had tho conductor on the tram i,h question been less interested in cricket the gong would have sounded earlier. The Magistrate expressed a somewhat different opinion. "It was carelessness, tiiouglitlessness, perhaps absent-mind-edness —I don’t know what to call it,” he commented. “It might have ended in a very serious accident.’ A fine of £4 and costs was imposed.