DANGEROUS DRIVING

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 15

DANGEROUS DRIVING

Traffic Offenders Dealt With On charges of dangerous driving, Godfrey Owen Jones and Frank Kettlewell were each fined £2 and costs by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Jones was stated to have admitted that a collision near the Kaiwarra crossing on the Hutt Road on the night of June 10 was caused by his driving on the wrong side of the road. Kettlewell admitted pulling out on to the wrong side of Willis Street, between Manners Street and Bond Street, on June 15. Raymond Arnold Wickenden and Reginald Charles Fitness were each fined £2 and costs for failing to give way to other vehicles.

Cljfford Glen Porter' was fined 10/- and costs for driving without due care and attention, and for a similar offence Sidney Tasman Baylis and Garnet Leslie Burke were each fined £2 and costs and John Sharp £1 and costs. Failure to obey the traffic lights cost Arthur George Grpbham and Ralph Howard Hardy each £1 and costs. For not removing broken glass from the road, Albert Hughes was fined £2 and costs. He stated that he stopped hig car and asked a friend to get out, whereupon the latter smashed a windscreen with a bottle.

Hugh Stanley McLaren, Lum Joe Bing, Gordoji Benham Radford, John Raymond Brown, George Croxford, Briton Smith, and Donald Raymond Strong were each fined 10/- and costs for failing to have a warrant of fitness, and Stanley Barker was ordered to pay costs. Radford and McLaren were alsg fined 5/- and costs for having no 1 driving licence, and Brown 15/- and costs for a parking offence. Walter Joseph Barrott and Frank Doell were fined each 5/- and costs for having no driving licence For parking offences, Harry Hawke, Fredejiek ikndrew Simpson, and Charles Henry White were each fined 15/- and costs, and Joseph James Craig, Frederick Cecil Pearce, Hugh Rayland Anderson, and William John Charles Harper each 10/- and costs. Anderson and Hooper were also fined 5/- and costs for having no driving licence. Earl William Dowling was fined £1 and costs for failing to give way at a pedestrian crossing, and James Eli Dahl the same amount for exceeding the speed limit.