BUS DRIVER’S THIRD TRIAL
ANOTHER DISAGREEMENT [l’£u United Puess Association.] AUCKLAND, November, 6. On April 5 a bus collided with a train at M’Lcod’s Flat, near Hikurangi, and six young people were killed and one seriously injured. The driver of the bus, Noel Herbert Wilkinson, aged nineteen, has been tried three times on a charge of negligent driving causing death, and unless the Solicitor-General intervenes he will be tried a fourth time. When the third jury disagreed yesterday Wilkinson’s counsel protested strongly against further proceedings, which counsel for the Crown said ho was bound to apply for. Mr Justice Herdman said that the disaster of which the prisoner was an agent was one of magnitude, and he would fix a now trial for next Thursday and leave it to the SolicitorGeneral to decide whether the trial ■should proceed.
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Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 6
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138BUS DRIVER’S THIRD TRIAL Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 6
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