CALLOUS DRIVER
DRIVES ON AFTER ACCIDENT
MOTORIST'S LONG CHASE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, This Day
Bun to earth by a motorist after a chase of ten miles on 15th July, a lorrydriver named Peta Mua, or Peter Moore, aged 33, of Tolaga Buy, was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence by Mr. Harper, S.M., at the Police Court last night on a charge of having negligently driven a lorry, thereby causing an injury to Noeliue Kidd, aged nine. Tho evidence showed that the aueused, who pleaded guilty,, was driving a lorry with three Maori companions from Gisborno towards ToUiga Bay, and that ho knocked tho girl off her bicycle near an intersection. The accused was travelling on the wrong side of the road at a speed of over thirty miles an hour, according to tho estimate of witnesses, and did not stop after tho accident.
A motorist, Leslie A. Potts, who saw tho accident, gave chase, and overtook the accused about twelve miles from Gisborne. Potts took the names of the accused and -his companions,. and inspected the lorry, noting certain damage before allowing it to proceed. Detective M'Leod stated that the accused, strenuously denied knowledge of any accident when interviewed throe days later.
The girl suffered a fractured jaw and arm and severe bruises, and, according to medical evidence, there is a likelihood of permanent disability.
CALLOUS DRIVER
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 38, 13 August 1930, Page 12
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