LEFT INJURED ON ROAD.
GIRL KNOCKED OFF CYCLE. DRIVER TO BE SENTENCED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] OISBORXK, Wednesday. -A lorry 'driver, Petri Mua (Peter Moore), aged 33. of Tolaga Bay, was yesterday committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of negligently driving a lorry and thereby causing injury to Noeline Kidd, aged nine. The evidence showed that Mua, who pleaded guilty, was driving the. lorry, with three Maori companions, from Gisborne toward Tolaga Bay when he knocked the girl off her bicycle near an intersection. He was travelling on the wrong side of the road at a speed of over 30 miles an hour, according to the estimate of witnesses, and. he did not slop after the accident.
A motorist, Leslie A. Potts, saw tho accident and gave chase and overtook the lorry about 12 miles from Gisborne. lie took the names of Mua and his companions, and inspected the lorry, noting certain damage, before allowing it to proceed. Detective McLeod stated that accused strenuously denied knowledge of any accident when interviewed three days later. The girl suffered a fracture of the jaw and arm and severe bruises, and, according to medical evidence, (here is a likelihood of permanent disability.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 14
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