"NO DEAD POLICEMAN"
There was no dead policeman in the intersection—l mean no white centre mark around which you've got to go," said Francis Rule, lorry-driver, in the Magistrate's Court today when charged before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., with cutting a corner. Evidence was given that in turning the corner of Adelaide Road and Rugby Street the defendant had made a wides wing and had struck an elderly lady. The defendant in evidence said that' he was forced out by a fast-moving car approaching on his tight. The old lady had been obscured by a tram. "It was a fifty-fifty go," said the defendant. "If I hadn't swung out, I Would have been pinched for not giving way." "May be," said Mr. Mosley. "I can't speculate; 10s and costs."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 11
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