CARS AND DRIVERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1929, Page 2

CARS AND DRIVERS

KILLED AT PLAY. (Per Press Association.) HAWERA, August 3. As the result of injuries received when knocked down by a motor-lorry at Okaiawa, on Wednesday afternoon, Madeline Mack, the six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs A. J. Mack, Okaiawa Hotel, died in the Hawera Hospital on Saturday morning. The child had beqn playing with a group of children on the side of the roadway in the middle of the township < and ran out suddenly towards the middle of the road and collided with a lorry, which is reported to have been moving slowly. WOMAN KILLED. BLENHEIM, August 5. Violet Chaney, married, aged 40, a resident of Kaiapoi, was with a party in a car proceeding to Picton. When near Grassnere, on Saturday night for some unexpected reason the car went over a culvert. Mrs Chaney was pinned beneath the car and was fatally injured. A following car took the injured lady to Seddon, but she died on the way. drunkenYriver. AUCKLAND. August 3. After his motor car had crashed into a safety zone near the corner of Queen’ and Victoria Streets, last midnight, John Herbert Wilde, 48, motor mechanic, was arrested on a charge of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car. To-day Wilde admitted the charge when he appeared at the Police Court.

Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that Wilde’s car crashed into the safety zone and as a result the vehicle was considerably damaged. Wilde was more than intoxicated. He was a single man, and had never previously been in trouble.

Wilde was fined £25 and his license to drive was cancelled for twelve months. MOTORIST IMPRISONED. WELLINGTON, August 3. Samuel John Camcross, alias Albert Prosser, 47, was given two months’ imprisonment, by Justices at Petone, for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. His license was suspended for two years. RAILWAY CRITICISED. PALMERSTON N., August 5. “Shunting trains about the square appears to be one of the reasons for deviation being wanted,” observed Mr J. Stout, S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when a motor car driver was charged with crossing the railway line in the Square when it was not clear. “Traffic is often held up this way,” added Mr Stout. “The railway yards appear to be the trouble. It' should not be necessary to have to hold up traffic in the centre of a town. It is certainly very trying to have a goods train shunting up as far as the monument and stopping there for some time.”

N.S. WALES TRAGEDIES. SYDNEY, August 4. The death roll, as the result of motoring accidents throughout New South Wales' this week-end, totals eight. It is expected that three more will die overnight. The majority of the fatalities were in the country. “SPEED MANIACS.” (United Service.) LONDON, August 5. “Speed, speed, speed!” said the Coroner (Mr J. Martin) when holding an inquest into the death of a motor cyclist who was killed in a collision. “There is a race of maniacs at large on our roads, and it is a perfect misery to go on the roads when these are about. It is no good my wasting breath warning them. I have wasted enough already. Let them kill themselves. It is a form of suicide, while of unsound mind. They are maniacs. You cannot cure them.”

SUPPRESSION OF NOISE. (Official Wireless). RUGBY, August 1. The Ministry of Transport’s order-, prohibiting excessive noises from motor-cars, comes into force to-day. Motor-car owners may be prosecuted for having insufficient silencers, screeching brakes, rattling gear-boxes, or excessively loud horns.