SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21086, 21 January 1932, Page 11

SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

YOUNG WOMAN INJURED. PUTARURU GROCER FiNED. [from our own- correspondent.] HAMILTON, "Wednesday. As an outcome of a motor collision which occurred on the Cambridge Road at, Tamahere on the evening of November 11, when a young woman was seriously injured, Leonard James Hooper, grocer, Putaruru, was charged in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court, to-day with dangerous driving. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The circumstances were that Hooper was driving toward Cambridge, and when on the Tamahere straight a collision occurred between his car and a motorcycle ridden by Sydney Young, factory assistant, Matangi. Miss Ivy Mary Coleman, of Auckland, who was riding on the pillion seat of Young's cycle, was injured, and was in hospital for six weeks. After hearing lengthy evidence the magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, considered that both drivers had contributed to the accident. Young had not kept a proper look-out, and defendant had made a wide sweep and had taken the righthand side of the road. He could" have avoided the impact had he maintained his correct course. Defendant was fined £2.