SEQUEL TO COLLISION

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 18

SEQUEL TO COLLISION

A collision between a taxi and a motor-car at the intersection of Lambton Quay and Featherston Street on August 1 resulted in the prosecution before Mr. W. F. StilweU, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday :of the driver of the taxi, Leonard Alex Nash, upon a charge of driving in a manner that might have been dangerous to the public. ' . Sub-Inspector C E. Hoach prosecuted, and Mr. A: H. Macandrew appeared for the defendant. _• Evidence was given that the defendant was travelling along Lambton Quay at a speed of between 20 and 2o miles per hour when his taxi struck a car emerging at a slow speed from Featherston Street. '■-.-» The defendant, in evidence, said that his attention had been distracted by the movements of three pedestrians, arid that he had not seen the other car. Holding that the prosecution had established its case, but that the offence was not a serious one, Mr. StUwell convicted the defendant and imposed a fine of £2 and £1 4s costs.

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