ASSAULT ON ROADWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 15

ASSAULT ON ROADWAY.

MOTORISTS IN DISPUTE. DIMMING OF HEADLIGHTS, A dispute between two motorists regarding the dimming of lights resulted in the aopearance of Henry Vv hite Hawthorn in the Police Court yesterday, charged with assaulting Alexander James Grant. Passengers in Grant's car 3aid he •topped on the city side of the Manurewa Bridge on tiie evening of May o to allow another car to pass from the opposite direction. The driver of this car shouted to Grant to dim his lights. The lights Were already dimmed, but Grant put them cut. The driver of the other car then jumped out and assaulted Grant. Hawthorn, in his statement, said the toad on the southern side of the bridge Was very rough. He '-va 3 blinded by Grant's light?, which were not switcned Off or even dimmed, and his car went into a rut. A spring was broken and the car nearly went of? the bridge altogether. He said he seized Grant by the Collar bat did not assault him. The magistrate, Mr. F. . Hunt, sa-id lio was satisfied some assault nad taicen place. Grant was a garage proprietor, find would not wilfully have left his lights burning. TTsiTrtliorn was fintHl 2Ln<i ecsts.