DANGEROUS DRIVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19454, 9 October 1926, Page 10

DANGEROUS DRIVING.

NOVEL POINT RAISED. OWNER AND THE DRIVER. \ . TWO CONVICTIONS SOUGHT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] , ' DUNEDIN. Friday. An interesting point was involved in a charge of driving a motor-van in a dangerous manner preferred against Albert George Anderson and James Harold Vincent Martin, in the Police Court today. Martin wrote stating that he had already told the police he was not driving the car. Sub-Inspector O'Halloran said that an English case it had been held that the owner of a car sitting next, to a. driv«r was equally culpable with him if the car were not properly driven. On the Kilmog hill the defendants drove round a sharp bend at 30 miles an hour, narrowly missing a police car which was going up the hill. Constable Taylor estimated the speed at 30 miles an hour and said the car was well on the wrong side of the road. Mr. Irwin said a man was likely to swing out to the right at a corner to see the road ahead sooner. "I suppose we have all driven at 30 miles and honr," he added. "A man on his wrong side has no right to be travelling at 30 miles an hour," said the magistrate in fining Anderson £3 with costs. Ho intimated that if the police saw fit to charge the driver of a car and the owner, too, he would not enter two i convictions unless there were particular circumstances.