CAR RACE IN SUBURB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 8

CAR RACE IN SUBURB.

SEQUEL IN COURT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. An amazing story of a race between three motor-cars around a block of streets in South Brighton was related to Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.. by SeniorSergeant Felton, in the Magistrate s Court, this morning, when three motorists were each charged with dangerous driving, and amongst them were fined £42. . Mr Felton, describing the race, said witnesses were amazed at the display of crazy driving. The _ cars swerved around corners in shingle, veering right over to the wrong side, and at times turning on two wheels. Motorists in the vicinity were scared to move. . The three men, who were represented by Air C. S. Thomas, were Douglas Ireland "Wakeley, Patrick John Flood and lan Ross Little. Each driver s license was endorsed anti A\ alceley \\ as fined £lO and Flood and Little each £l6. # . AT IF 1 Quoting different witnesses. Mr Felton said one described the cars’ speed as terrific Another said he saw one car take a left turn so fast that when he straightened up he was about tour feet from tlie right-hand gutter, while another said he saw one travel tor about 30ft on two wheels after taking a corner. , , . ■. At length the cars stopped ontsido a house, continued the senior-sergeant, and the drivers went inside. On getting out of his car, one driver was observed to stumble, and practically fall The police and a traffic inspectoi called at the house later in the day. when they found the men in a room which simply reeked with the smell of l>eer but a man who had been a passenger in one of the cars was the onh one under the influence of liquor. “ft all arose from an argument as to whether a- small one could beat a large one around a short course said Mr Thomas. “The argument got hotter during the dav. and in the end they decided to find out.” +1 Mr Thomas made a nlea that, rather than cancel the men’s licenses the Magistrate should make the fines heavier. Little's license, in particular, was his livelihood. , . , The Magistrate made Wakelev s penalty £lO and the endorsement of his license, and fined the others £l6 and costs.