BUS DRIVER IN COURT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21324, 27 October 1932, Page 14

BUS DRIVER IN COURT

INCIDENT AT W.HANGAREI COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent! WHANGABEI, Wednesday Charges of driving a motor-bus in a manner dangerous to the public, and driving at a speed of more than six miles an hour past another motor vehicle at the intersection of Grey Street, Mansfield Terrace and Bank Street, were preferred against Hodgson Norman, of Hikurangi, in the Whangarei Magistrate's Court to-day. Constable Norris said that on September 29, after the theatres came out, defendant's bus jvas level with two other buses passing the intersection, and continued on for some distance. Defendant was on the wrong side of the road. There was no traffic coming in the opposite direction. Mr. Clayton Thorne, for defendant, submitted that there was no evidence of dangerous driving, as there was no traffic about. "I am not going to encourage racing among busfes," said Mr. G. N. Morris, S.M., "and' I have evidence that three buses were abreast for a distance. The speed was not great, but it was uphill, and had any -vehicle como out of Grey Street there could easily havo been an accident." Defendant was fined £2 10s and costs on the first charge, and ordered to pay costs on the second.