FAILED TO GIVE WAY

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4043, 28 September 1933, Page 6

FAILED TO GIVE WAY

IN AUCKLAND ACCIDENT R E MAR K A RLE RECO V ER Y (Per Pres*, Association) Auckland, September 27 As a sequel to a sensational accident in Parnell in July when two cars collided and Robert Burns who was a passenger >n one. had liis neck pierced by a steel curtain roa the driver of one car, Annette George, was prosecuted today oil a charge* of negligent driving and failing to give way. The polite withdrew tbe first charge and the defendant pleaded guilty to the second Her counsel said the tacts were I G ---s s'rioin, than might, appear. Burns bad been discharge! from hospital. Tlic degree of negligence should not be judged by the extent of the man’: injuries. The defendant was fined £2* w. costs. Burns made a .remarkable ro-ovei Before be could be taken to tbe In pita| tbe rod bad to be sawn from i' base with a hacksaw At tbe hospital the rod was with Irawn and a f tube was inserted to enable Burns j