“CRIMINALLY CARELESS”

Evening Star, Issue 21786, 31 July 1934, Page 12

“CRIMINALLY CARELESS”

GAOL FOR MOTORIST TWO LIVES LOST IN COLLISION [Pek United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 31. “ As the, result of your inexcusable neglect the Jives of two human beings came to a premature end,” said Mr Justice Herdman in sentencing Frank Impey at the Supremo Court to-day for negligent driving so as to cause the death of two passengers in his car, which was struck by a train. The Judge said the prisoner should have had no difficulty in observing the approach of the train, and if his car had been under control ho should have been able to avoid an accident. It was all very well to plead now , for sympathy, but what about the people who were killed, apd what about their relatives? When a case got to the length of trial in the Supreme Court the loss that relatives suffered was forgotten and tbe judge was invited to extend sympathetic treatment to the one responsible for the calamity. In this case it was plain that the grisoner was criminally careless, said [is Honour, and he could do nothing else but inflict a punishment that the prisoner would remember. Prisoner was sentenced to three months with hard labour, and his driver’s license was cancelled for five years.