DANGEROUS DRIVING
CHARGE DISMISSED. FIVE IN FRONT SEAT. (Special to “Northern Advocate.’’) HAMILTON, This Day. An admission that five young people were sitting in the front seat of his motor car, which crashed into a bank on the Ohaupo Road on the evening of March 29, was made by Frederick Robert Cooper, freezing works employee, aged 29, in the Hamilton Court today, when he was charged with dangerous driving. Defendant said he was taking a party to a dance at Te Awamutu, and two girls were sitting on boys’ knees in the front seat. Owing to the accelerator jamming, the car wont into the bank, one of the girls receiving injuries resulting in admission in hospital. As the police offered no furtherj evidence, the 'Magistrate accepted the explanation, and the charge was dismissed. Cooper was fined £1 with, costs respectively on charges of driving without a license and failing to notify the accident.
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Northern Advocate, 4 May 1932, Page 4
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153DANGEROUS DRIVING Northern Advocate, 4 May 1932, Page 4
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