MOTORISTS IN COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19388, 24 July 1926, Page 14

MOTORISTS IN COURT.

SEQUELS TO COLLISIONS.

[BY TELEGRAM. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] MERCER, Friday. Several motorist? were prosecuted in the Mercer Police Court this week before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Reginald Frederick Piper,' of Whangamarino, was fined £lO and costs, £3 9s, and had his license suspended, for reckless driving or) June 8. A further charge against him, of being drunk while in charge of a car, was dismissed. Evidence was given by two other motorists, C. P. Hine and J. Mcßae, that accused was driving in an erratic manner. Some distance out of Rangiriri he passed Hinc's car, but went on to strike the side of Mcßae's car, and subsequently crashed into a bank Accused contended that a front wheel of his car collapsed as he approached Mcßae's car, but Constable Douglas produced the spokes of the wheel and pointed out that they appeared to have been quite sound. Apparently they had been smashed by the impact with the bank. A Waharoa resident, Alexander Wiggins, was fined £lO and costs, 7s. and had his license endorsed, for negligent driving at Pokeno on May 7. Evidence was given that he was travelling at, a speed estimated by witnesses at about 45 miles an hour along the Great South Road past the intersection with the Pokeno-Paeroa highway. He was on his wrong side. A car driven by Mrs. C. Lippiatt. of Pokeno, came out of the Paeroa Road at about 12 miles an hour and a collision occurred. A charge of negligent driving against Mrs. Lippiatt was dismissed. A collision between a butcher's van and a lorry at the overhead bridge across the railway at Pokeno on Mav 22 resulted in the van driver, Roy M. Watkins, of Pokeno. being charged with negligent driving. He admitted that he was travelling at between 20 and 25 miles an hour and looked behind to reach his hat out of the van. The magistrate complimented him on his candour. He was fined £5 and costs, 7s. Both Watkins and the lorry driver, Thomas Allan, of Tauhei. also each had to pay 10s and costs, 7s, for failing to produce their licenses on this occasion when asked to do so by the constable.