FATHER AND SON

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 4

FATHER AND SON

Offences With Lorrv

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 21. Penalties totalling £4O were imposed on father and son, Walter George Bettridge and Walter George Bettridge, Junr., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., after hearing a number of charges against them arising out of an accident on July 2, in which a lorry, owned by the father and driven by the son, knocked down and seriously injured a girl, Doris Metcalf. The son was also ordered to pay £4O compensation to the injured girl. Bettridge, Junr., was charged with negligently driving a motordorry, using an unlicensed lorry and failing when required to give his name and address to 8. J. Geary, a person concerned in the accident, with failing to report the accident, and with driving a motor-lorry at night without proper light. Bettridge, Senr., was charged witii permitting the use of an unregistered lorry. Both pleaded not guilty. The police case was that Bettridge, Junr., was driving the lorry at a fast speed with only one light showing and he knocked down the girl when she was on a cycle. It was alleged that lie afterward gave a wrong name and address and later to a constable he denied all knowledge of the accident. . The defence was a complete denial that the lorry was driven by either of them •t the time of the accident. Both accused were convicted. Bettridge, Junr., was fined £2O and ordered to pay £4O compensation to Doris Metcalf, in default three months’ imprisonment. ' For failing to give a correct name, Bettridge, Junr., was fined £lO, in default one month’s imprisonment.