TAXI-DRIVER CHARGED

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1939, Page 2

TAXI-DRIVER CHARGED

allbcbd failure to stop. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, October 15. Au accident on the Wellington — Mu.stei’ton main highway, which involved a taxi and another car. led lo the appearance in the Supreme Gouct. Wellington, to-day, of Herbert Swam, a. taxi-driver. 64, of Garterfoii, who pleaded not guilty to a, charge of failing to stop lifter an accident and ascertain if any person was injured. After an all-day sitting the Court was adjourned till 10 a m. to-morrow. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. W. .■ L Cunningham) said at the outset that on tho afternoon of July 24, Mrs. Mavis McPhee was driving her car from Masterton toward Greytown. As she nea’.'cd a bend near an intersection, she a car approaching with a, lorry in tow. It was alleged that another car, driven by the accused, subsequently came out from behind the lorry and collided with the side of Mrs. McPhee’s car. It. crumpled back the right-hand front mudguard and knocked off the door handle. The front, mudguard o: the car driven by the accused was also damaged. Mr. Cunningham added that the accused reported the accident to the police next morning, and in a statement said he had just passed the lorry when he felt a bump. Accused asked his passenger if the other car stopped, and the passenger answered in the negative. “I thought everything- was all right, and went on io Jtfasterlon,” accused said in his statemeni.