AN ABANDONED CAR
Negligent Driving Charge COMPANY MANAGER FINED When Constable R. A. Morris was patrolling the Petone Esplanade in .the early morning of Christinas Day, he found an abandoned motor-car* parked at right angles to the ro:id. half on the bitumen afid half on the macadam. Nearby the Gear Meat Company's railway points Imre evidence of a collision. The ear was subsequently found to belong to Hector George Thirkell, coiitpany manager, who pleaded guilty in the Petone Police Court yesterday to a charge of negligent driving. He was convicted and fined £2 and costs by Messrs. A. Anderson and A. Coles J.P.’s. In his‘statement to the police, Thirkell said that he had been to a party on Christmas Eve. but he had not had any liquor. He had had very little sleep, and while going along the esplanade had apparently dozed off and collided with the railway points. Since no one was injured he had not thought it necessary to report the accident to the police.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 10
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167AN ABANDONED CAR Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 10
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