MOTORISTS IMPRISONED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1930, Page 5

MOTORISTS IMPRISONED.

OUTCOME OF ACCIDENTS,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day.

In sentencing a motorist named Daniel,Braig Miller Andrews, aged 32, married, to six months’ imprisonment for causing actual bodily harm, under circumstances that if death had resulted accused would have been guilty of manslaughter, Mr Justice Kennedy said accused had run down a cyclist while in a state of intoxication and had driven an unlightcd car on the wrong side of the road. It was fortunate the death of the cyclist did not result from his negligence. Accused was also disqualified from obtaining a license for three years. George McGavin O’Kane, a young man, for negligently driving a motor and causing the death of Stanley Omand, a motor cyclist at Roxburgh, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. The Judge took into account the fact that the jury considered his negligence was duo to over fatigue. There was, however, no need for accused to be on the road at all after having spent an evening in festivity. He had also narrowly escaped collision with another car. In a spot well light ed, accused had ran down a cyclist and left him at the side of -the road with his own car punctured and the mudguards dented. Accused’s statement next morning created more than a suspicion that he was conscious of the collision. Accused was also disqualified from obtaining a license for three years.