NEGLIGENT DRIVING
GOODMAN EOR TRIAL. WELLINGTON, This Day. Albert Goodman, a horse trainer, of Trentham, who was charged with ' having driven a motor ear in a negli- u ' gent and dangerous manner on the main road, Upper Hutt, ou Septembei' * j ' 17 last, thereby causing bodily in- * ~ juries to Norman Parata and Jack Alridge, who were riding pillon on a motor cycle, was committed to the ; Supreme Court for trial. Bail was ' allowed. The magistrate refused counsel ’a plea to dismiss the case. The evi- . denee given as to Goodman’s sobriety ‘‘ was unreservedly accepted by the magistrate, who said that in this respect the police case had failed. The question as to whether Goodman was,- • • ' or was not, guilty of negligence in trying to pass the ear in front of him, thus causing the collision, was, said , the Bench, a question for a jury to. decide.—Press Assn
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1928, Page 7
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