RECKLESS SPEED.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1661, 14 October 1920, Page 5

RECKLESS SPEED.

TAXI DRIVER BEFORE COURT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 13. In giving his verdict at the inquest on Alfred Maile, who died in the hospital on 29th September, following being knocked down by a taxi driven by William Arthur Webb, Mr Evans (Coroner) said he believed Webb was travelling too fast. There was no traffic at the time to give a careful driver any difficulty in passing a man if he was travelling at a reasonable need. The driver swerved to the *>- ht to avoid a hand-cart, and kept -rtfe* , th e direction of men who were or* li» visible to anyone keeping a plainly Without slackening pace, look-ovis. 6) or sounding his horn in turn-nag the men? he ran over time to waim fatal i i n jU r eS) an d Maile, inflictMts n,nging to the radicarried Barnard »- fore drawing up. atoi- about 99 feet es disclosed by The whole sivcumsuw> ont on i y w ith the evidence' were corfwSW^ > safety otreckless disvesard for tW*- hiffhway persons lawfully using iW /■ resul { He found, thaA Maile died a<? 9 * .. un of injuries caused through tiSmg *. . over by a car driven in a re&fefe** manner.. Webb was subsequently ] charged with manslaughter and re- I rnanded for a week. f