MOTORISTS’ BREACHES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 20, 18 October 1930, Page 21

MOTORISTS’ BREACHES

Variety of Cases Thursday at the Magistrate’s Court, Petone, was a busy day for Mr. T B. McNeil, S.M., the Court sitting from 10.30 a.m. to 8.45 p.m. A number of the cases were concerned with breaches of traffic regulations, such as speeding past intersections, driving at a speed that might be dangerous to the public, failing to give way to the vehicle on the right, and failing to sound the horn. „ ~r> By-Ixiw Valid.

Recently the Minister of Transport disallowed the traffic by-laws of the Petone Borough Council fixing the speed of motor vehicles In certain streets. That decision was challenged by ‘he borough, and the r r Feaw& C was "agalnsf ciuiSii ih <„ s I. “ SfSS .. Dangerous Driving. Sats speed that, having regard to all the circumstances, might be tho nubile. It was stated that inert was a considerable amount of traffic about flt T h ee magistrate convicted O’Shea and fined him £5 and costs 10/-. ... Other Cases. A collision on August 13 had its sequel yesterday, when Robert Cairns Lee was fined 10/- and costs 12/- for driving a motor lorry without a license. John Hayman Urry, for attempting to pass a motor lorry on the Hutt Road on the wrong side, while overtaking it, was fined £2 and costs, the fine later being reduced to 10/- and costs, on the application of Mr. Watterson, who appeared for defendant. For riding a motor-cycle along Jackson Street, Petone, at a speed estimated at 30 miles an hour, and crossing intersections at 25 miles an hour, Robert James Haslam was fined £3 and costs 10/-. For failing to stop when signalled to do bo by a constable, he was convicted and ordered to pay costs io/-. . , Passing a railway bus at an intersection at a speed estimated between 20 and 25 miles an, hour in Jackson Street, Petone, cost Anthony Joseph Wood £3 and costs. The charge was one of dangerous driving.

Harry Clemo on a recent morning was coming out of Te Puni Street, Petone, on his motor-cycle, when he collided with a motor-car driven by Cyril George Edward Platt, in Jackson Street. Had he not swerved to the right the results might have been even more disastrous. As it was, no one was very much hurt. Neither Clemo nor Platt sounded the horn of his vehicle. Clemo was fined £2 and costs 13/- for dangerous driving, and convicted and ordered to pay costs, 10/-, on the charge of falling to sound his horn. Platt, who was charged with failing to give way to traffic on his right, was fined 10/- and costs 18/-, and for failing to sound his horn he was convicted ~and ordered to pay costs 10/-.