MOTOR STRIKES POST

Evening Star, Issue 23270, 19 May 1939, Page 8

MOTOR STRIKES POST

DRIVER’S UNUSUAL EXPLANATION SNEEZED HIS FALSE TEETH OUT [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH. May 19. Counsel in a Supremo Court action to-day offered tho explanation that the driver of a rental car which struck a telegraph post in Ferry road on September 1 sneezed his false teeth out. The ease is being heard before Mr Justice Northcote and a jury of four. The owners of the car, Larges Ltd., sued the driver, R. A. Nock, a Government inspector, for £l3B 5s 9d (the cost of repairs to the car)’, £lO for depreciation, and £2l for loss of revenue from the car. . Counsel said the defendant hired the car and signed an agreement to pay all expenses that might be incurred through his negligent driving and to compensate Larges for any depreciation. Driving towards the city from Sumner about 12.30 a.ra. on September 1, the car struck a telegraph pole. _ Nock said he was travelling about 35 miles an hour. After being helped out of the car by two bystanders, Nock said that he would ring up the police, Imt he did not return. When be saw Larges at 9 a.m. the next day he said that he had sneezed violently three times in quick succession, and the sneezing had caused the accident, as be bad sneezed his false teeth out. Nock had not notified the police. The case is proceeding.