"WENT TO SLEEP"
taxi-driver fined " Ton Trent to sleep; next time you fee] sleepy pull in to the side of the road and go to sleep for an hour," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., to Mervvn Jukes, taxi-driver, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Defendant was charged with Negligently driving on the Great South Road about 1 a.m., it being stated that his car had collided with a telegraph pole. He pleaded not guilty.' _ Defendant, in evidence, said lie started work at 7 o'clock on the previous morning, continued until noon a nd then went home to sleep until six o'clock in tbo evening. He was_ then working until the time of the accident. The car swerved suddenly, hut he did not think he had gone to sleep. " You have to go to sleep for only a second to loso control," said the magistrate, fining defendant £1 and costs. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22412, 7 May 1936, Page 15
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