DRIVER SENT TO PRISON.
LITTLE GIRL KNOCKED DOWN. LEFT INJURED ON ROAD. [BY TELEGRAM. —PBESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, Fridtiy. Stern comment upon the action of a lorry driver in driving on after knocking down a little girl and leaving her lying on the road with severe injuries, was passed by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court to-day in sentencing the driver, Peta Mua, or Peter Moore, to one year's imprisonment and cancelling his driving licence for five years. His Honor warmly commended the action of a motorist, Mr. Potts, in pursuing the lorry after the accident and compelling the driver to stop after a chaso of 10 miles.
Mua had pleaded guilty in the lower Court to a charge of negligently driving a lorry, thereby causing bodily injury to Noelino Kidd, aged eight, who was knocked off a bicycle and run over. She suffered a fracture of the jaw and arm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 13
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