RADIATOR ORNAMENTS.
JURY'S RIDER. (Press Assn) WELLINGTON, July 15. A jury of 12 in the Supreme Court found Noel Campbell Itaikes, a salesman, aged 24, guilty on a charge of negligent driving and causing the death of Robert Brian Patterson, aged i), a cyclist, at Paraparaumu.
After inspecting the scene of the accident the jury returned their verdict with the strongest possible recommendation to mercy. They added a rider that a law should be brought down doing away with all ornaments and obstructions of radiator caps and expressed the opinion, that fin: ornament on the prisoner's car was the cause of death:
Mr Justice Smith suspended the prisoner's driver's license and prohibited him from obtaining another license.for five years. Mis Honour said this would not prevent him driving cars for an ambulance corps overseas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7
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