SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 15

SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

FAILURE OF PROSECUTION. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday. A charge of negligent driving was preferred against Moses Frank Gate (Mr. J. F. Strang), a salesman, of Hamilton, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Huntly Magistrate's Court to-day. The charge arose out of a collision which occurred between a motor-car driven by accused and a car driven by Andrew Maguire, of Rangiriri, on the main road north of Huntly on the evening of August 25. Both vehicles were extensively damaged. Cafe sprained one wrist and suffered severely from shock. A passenger in Maguire's car, Mr. Clarence Wallbank, was also injured. The accident occurred on a straight road free of other traffic. After the collision both cars were found to be well on the correct side of the road. Evidence was given for the police that C'ato had been driving on the wrong side. The magistrate said the collision had several extraordinary features and ho found it impossible to understand certain phases of it from the description given bv witnesses for the prosecution. There were several glaring inaccuracies in the evidence submitted. He thought it significant that just before the collision took place the injured man, Wallbank, cried out to Maguire, "Be careful." If the car had been driven as Maguire stated it had been, there was, he thought, nothing to be careful about. He dismissed the information without calling upon tho dofence.