MILKMAN KILLED

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4264, 26 May 1936, Page 2

MILKMAN KILLED

Driving home in the early morning from the Chelsea Arts Ball, Robert Kenneth Tinkler, the noted London tennis player, knocked down and killed a milk salesman. When he appeared at Ealing he explained : “ 1 did not see the barrow. I must have gone to sleep at the wheel. Had 1 imagined that 1 would go to sleep 1 would have taken steps to keep myself awake.” Tinkler was fined £5 for dangerous driving and ordered to pay ogs costs. His license was suspended for a year. Prosecuting, Air E. G. B. Taylor contended that a driver who allowed himself to fall asleep was a grave danger to the public. Mr T. Springer, who defended, observed that every motorist had found himself at some time nodding off to sleep. Was it. he asked, going to be said that a man had committed a criminal offence when he was not aware of what he was doing? He submitted that before a man could be said to be driving dangerously he must be wide awake.