TAXI DRIVER GUILTY OF FATAL NEGLECT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Pleading not guilty in the Supreme Court to a charge of neglect-causing the death of David Roland Cotton, Arnold ' Hubbard, aged 30,- a taxidriver was found guilty by a jury which added a strong recommendation to m&rcy. The Crown Prosecutor, outlining the case, said a taxi driven by the accused along Thorndon Quay, towards the city mounted a footpath and struck a lamppost. The taxi was wrecked and Cotton, who had been in the back seat, received injuries from which he died. The basis of the charge was that the taxi was being driven so carelessly and as such a pace that it failed to make a turn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1947, Page 3
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