MOTORIST ACQUITTED

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 11

MOTORIST ACQUITTED

Charge of Negligence By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, May 6. In the Supreme Court to-day Leslie Norman Mclntosh was charged with negligently driving a motor-car on the Main North Road, thereby causing the death of George H. Garbutt. The Crown Prosecutor said that at o’clock on the night of January 25 Garbutt, a chemist, of Kaiapoi, was kiuen near the northern approach to the \vaimakariri Bridge. Carbutt, riding a motor-cycle, passed a .taxi travelling J lOl ] 1 Christchurch and was fifty yards ahead. Going over the bridge the taxi man saw n motor-car coming from the opposite direction, and this car, a witness would sav, was on the wrong side of the road when Ibe crash occurred. The accused s oar did not stop, but continued on and crashed into the’taxi. The accused when interviewed after the accident said that lie did not feel too well and there was a smell of alcohol on his breath. the accused said that he was driving along the road when the motor-cyclist who was approaching swerved into him. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.