NEGLIGENT DRIVING
SEQUEL TO FATALITY [BY TELEGRAPH —PKEBS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday A city building contractor, Kaspar Gray Webley, aged 39, was" found guilty in the Supreme Court of having driven a motor-car negligently along Marshland Road on February 24, thereby causing the death of Joseph Quinn. Webley was remanded for sentence. Mr. Justice Northcroft, in summing up, said that evidence of the accused's consumption of liquor on the day of the accident had been brought by the prosecution, a hotel barman having refused him more drink because he considered he had had enough. It was for the jury to determine whether Webley Avns in a fit state to drive, and it was also for the jury to say whether 60 miles an hour along Marshland Road was a reasonable speed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 12
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