FATIGUE CAUSES MISHAP.
MOTOR-CAR STRIKES CYCLIST. GISBORNE DRIVER FINED £2O. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, Wednesday. Accepting defendant/5 explanation that tho accident occurred while he was so affected by fatigue that he was temporarily unable to control his motor-car, Mr. Harper, S.M., to-day fined Robert, C. Fisken £2O for driving in a manner dangerous to the public. The prosecution was the sequel to an accident in which a cyclist was knocked down and injured by a ear driven by Fisken, who failed to stop or to report the accident. The magistrate commented that. w;hen a motorist, reached the stage of fatigue that rendered him unable to control his machine his plain duty was to stop until ho was refreshed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21110, 18 February 1932, Page 10
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