MOTORIST FINED
ACCIDENT IN TUNNEL
Although he denied the charge in the Magistrate's Court today, Stanley Victor Croft, aged 50, a motor engineer, was convicted by Messrs. P. D. Hoskins and H. D. Grocott, JP.s, of having been in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car in the Mount Victoria traffic tunnel and was fined £10.
The Bench said that it was usual in cases of this sort to take some action affecting the driver's licence, but on this occasion they would treat the matter leniently. The man had no doubt learnt his lesson from this charge. Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach said that at a little after 4.30 p.m. yesterday, the defendant was driving through the tunnel towards Seatoun, where he lived, when he collided with an oncoming car and then with a taxi which was also proceeding towards the city. The police alleged that he was under the influence of liquor. The defence, which was conducted by Mr. S Hardy, was that although Croft had had two drinks that afternoon, he was not intoxicated. The defendant ascribed the accident to the fact that the driver of the oncoming car was a visitor to Wellington and not used to the traffic and the lights in the tunnel. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 11
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