NEGLIGENT DRIVING
A RACE DAY FATALITY FARMER CROSSING ROAD (By X " graph.—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Uth June. On a charge of negligently driving a, car, thereby causing the death of Norman Stephen Bradley on 12th April, a middle-aged farmer named August Herman Demler appeared in the Supreme Court to-day. . .. . The Crown's case showed that tho fa-, tality occurred on the first day of the April races at Te Eapa. Bradley, who lived nearby, was walking hpme along the grass margin of the road. He step-, pod off the grass to cross, the road and was knocked down by Demler's car and killed. It was charged'against Demler, that he failed to keep a proper lookout, and that the brakes of his car were', defective. ■ . . In evidence, it was shown that tlio car travelled 35 or 40 yards before pulling up. . • • ■ ■ ~ , A son of the accused said: that the deceased stepped out suddenly in front of the car. No brakes in tho worldl would have saved Bradley.. The car was shifted some distance after the accident out of tho way of the race traffic. . '..... Counsel for the defence :submitted that tho deceased, who :was walking in' front of the car, stopped suddenly, and it was impossible to avoid hitting him. The jury, 'after a short retiremeat, brought in a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 136, 12 June 1930, Page 15
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