Collision At Home After Driving Overseas
“A grim jest was that while he was overseas his mother kept the car for him. Another grim jest.was that he was driving in the Middle East for four years and came home to meet with this accident.’’
Tfiis comment was made in the Whan-: garei Court yesterday by Mr. D. L. Ross, appearing for Ronald Ivan Burgess, charged with driving a motor car in James Street without due care and attention. Mr. Ross said that as a result of the accident in which Burgess had been involved, the car, valued at £230. had been wrecked, and all he had received after its sale to the wreckers had been £64. Prosecuting. Senior-Sergeant J. Crowley said that Burgess had driven along James Street and at the intersection with Robert Street had failed to give way. becoming involved in van accident with another vehicle. Burgess, who was a returned soldier on leave at the time, had been driving at a fast pace. “He seems to have inflicted his own Denalt.v.” commented the magistrate (Mr; W. C, Harley), Imposing a fins of £1 with costs.
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Northern Advocate, 6 March 1945, Page 2
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