REPORTING ACCIDENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 October 1925, Page 4

REPORTING ACCIDENTS.

! ■ 1 : . ■ t ' A MOTORIST’S BREACH

FINE IMPOSED

A case against a motorist who failed to report to the police an accident involving personal injury, was heard in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court to-day. Ignorance as to what his obligations were in connection with the matter was the explanation given by defendant, who, nevertheless, pleaded guilty to the charge. ■ Sergeant Henry said that the defendant, Pierie Grace, a motor mechanic, whilst driving a car, struck a woman pedestrian and knocked her down, with the result that she had to be taken home in a car. Mr Bayley said the woman was not strong, and if the accident had happened to anyone else it would not have been noticed. He said that the accident was not a, serious one. No civil claim was going to arise out of the matter, and Grace had not been aware of the fact that he had to report the matter. His Worship might have seen the report that the Auckland police had been deluged by reports of trivial accidents, and if the case under review had been reported at Auckland it would have been classed under the heading of “trivial.”

Sergeant Henry said that Mr Bayley had not mentioned that the report had gone on to say that only in .oases of personal injury it was necessary to> report to the police. In the present case the lady run into had been injured. Mr Bayley said that the fact that the husband of the lady would not- let his wife give particulars of the accident showed that the accident was not aserious one.

The magistrate said»he could not say what the husband’s object was in adopting the attitude he had.

A fine of £1 and 7s court costs was imposed.