BEST TEST FOR DRUNKEN MOTORIST SUSPECTS
DRIVE CAR UNDER DOCTOR’S SUPERVISION
(Per Press Association. Copyright . 3 WELLINGTON, This Day.
“As far as we docors are concerned, it would be a good thing toward determining a man’s fitness to drives if, in doubtful cases of intoxioataion, the suspected) person were allowed to drive his c&r,” said Dr. A. A. Tennent, when giving evidence as a wit • ness in the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in a case in which a taxi proprietor was charged with being found intoxicated in charge of a motor ear. The magistrate: It appears to be the only acid test. There would be no danger because the driving would be done under supervision. Dr. Tennent: Doctors would be grateful for this opportunity. The magistrate: Of course, where a case is truly on the borderline, the verdict must be in the defendant’s favour. After hearing the evidence the magistrate dismissed the case, saying there was a doubt.
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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1937, Page 7
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