MOTORING SMASH
DEIVEE, BEFOEE COUBT,
(By Telegraph.) (Specfcrt to the "Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. The Papalcura midnight motor- smash of 22nd January, in which iive persons wero injured, through a car colliding with a telegraph post, was recalled in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Joseph Mercer, driver of the car, was charged with negligent driving. Lewis Joll, by whom the defendant was employed as a motor mechanic, said that the defendant, after the accident, told him he was doing 30 miles an hour when something went wrong bohind, and he lost control of the car. Witness thought it was obvious that tho mudguard came in contact with the telegraph post. The car was worth botween £.250 and £350. Questioned by the Magistrate, Joll said the defendant was not on business for witness. He bad no right to take the car out. Detective Hammond: "Ho was out joy-riding, wasn't he!" —"Yes." Mr. Holmden: "It all depends on what you mean by ' joy-ridingl' The Magistrate: "It's all right, Mr. Holmden. I just want to know the facts." The case is proceeding.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 11
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180MOTORING SMASH Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 11
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