Fine and Imprisonment for Young Driver Over Collision Fatality

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1949, Page 4

Fine and Imprisonment for Young Driver Over Collision Fatality

P.A. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 23. ‘‘lf the first offence had stood alone, I would have been disposed to think that your case could have been properly met by a fine, but after the collision you failed to take steps to ascertain you had injured one person and killed another,” said Mr Justice Kennedy, in the Supreme Court to-dav, when Thomas Joseph Boyle, aged '24, single, a farm labourer, of Heddon Bush, appeared for sentence, having been found guilty on three counts: (1) Negligent driving causing the death of Alan Ronald Malcolm, 14, of Winton; (2) failing to ascertain if he had injured any person; and (3) failing to render assistance to the injured peson. On the first count Boyle was fined £5O or, in default, imprisonment not exceeding two months. On the second and third counts Boyle was sentenced to three months’ hard labour, terms to be concurrent. Boyle’s driving license was also cancelled. He was prohibited from obtaining another license for twelve months. The case was the sequel, to a collision on Christmas eve on Winton Road between a car and two cycles. Alan Ronald Malcolm was killed and his brother, Kenneth Malcolm, was injured.

Driver Acquitted NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 23. Acquitted of negligent driving, causing death, John Mack Cooper, aged 55, transport contractor, was discharged by Mr Justice Gresson in the Supreme Court to-day. The charge arose from a collision between a truck driven by Cooper and a car driven by Clarence Wiffler Till, of Stratford, stock buyer, who was killed, near Toko, on February 5.