SERIES OF COLLISIONS.
MAN, BUS AND WALL STRUCK. MOTORIST FINED TWO POUNDS# An unusual succession of misadventure# resulted in the appearance in the Police Court yesterday of Henry Evans (Mr. A. Moody), charged with dangerous driving on December 17. Sergeant CalweU said accused was driving in Panmure Road at an czcnsive speed. A motor-bus preparing to turn round had backed partly across th.? road. He mistook the position of the bus and his car struck it a glancing blow in the rear. The car then ran up a bank nod ran into a man sitting there waiting lor the bus. It pushed him for about 16ft and then ran over him. Defendant turned his car back to the road, but it ran across the opposite e:d» and collided with a stone wall. lhe car was badly damaged and defendant was injured. "Both defendant and the other man had to be takers to the hospital, Mr. Moody urged that the accident was due to an error of judgment and not to negligence, Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., imposed » fine of £2, vnth costs £2 18s-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19564, 17 February 1927, Page 12
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184SERIES OF COLLISIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19564, 17 February 1927, Page 12
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