"NO PLACE ON ROAD"
AN INEFFICIENT CAR
PRISON FOR NEGLIGENT DRIVER
(By Telegraph—J-'ress Association.)
HAMILTON, November 16.
Stating emphatically that an unroadworthy vehicle had no place on the road, Mr. Justice Callan imposed a sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour on Francis Henry Baird, farmer, Arohena, when he pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, today to a charge of negligent .driving so as to cause bodily injury to'a motor-cyclist, George Leslie Head. .
His Honour said that it was not a case for probation. The charge was a sequel to a collision which occurred on June 7 between the accused's car and a motor-cycle driven by Head, who received serious injuries to a leg. When he appeared in the Magistrate's Court at Cambridge Baird entered a plea of not guilty, but under the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, the case was set down for trial. It was revealed that Baird was driving a car in an unroadworthy condition without lights or horn. However, the motor-cycle had no light.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 7
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