ALLEGED RECKLESS DRIVING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 November 1936, Page 5

ALLEGED RECKLESS DRIVING

CYCLIST INJURED ißy Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A charge of recklessly driving a motor car at Porirua on 6th November and thereby causing bodily injury to James Leacock, hospital attendant, was preferred against Edward Miller, wrestling manager, aged 50, in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr Luxford S.M. Leacock said he went off duty at 5 p.m. and proceeded homeward on his bicycle. He remembered reaching a level crossing and waiting for the train to pass. After it passed he mounted his machine, but remembered nothing more till he woke up in the Public Hospital. Witness identified his uniform and machine. He said that before that evening there were no spokes broken in the wheels and no rents in the clothes. Evidence was given as to the wounds on Leacock when he wag admitted to hospital. Another attendant at Porirua Mental Hospital said he met Leacock at the railway crossing and they set out in a northerly direction. Leacock was close to him on the outside. Just over a hundred yards from the grossing, a car coming behind struck Leacock and threw him on to witness. He dragged Leacock ten or twelve yards and then threw him off. Witness was knocked off also onto his hands and knees on the grass. The car accelerated and did not stop. Witness was definite it did not stop. He got its number. He did not hear it approaching, nor did he hear any warning device sounded. The case is proceeding.