CAR'S CRASH INTO SHOP
SEQUEL HEARD IN COURT [from 1 OCR ow.v correspondent] PUKEKOHE. Thursday A collision at the corner of the Great South Road and Marlborough Street. Pokeno, on August 31 between a motor-lorry and a light car, which resulted in the car crashing through the door of a shop on the corner and penetrating Bft. into the building, was recalled in the Pukekohe Court. The lorry driver, Archibald Colin McLeod, was charged with negligent driving. Sergeant T. Kelly said that McLeod was driving south, and pulled to his left approaching Marlborough Street in order to make a good turn to the right into that street. The driver of the car, a lady, thought the lorry was turning into a petrol station on the left, and she attempted to overtake it. The result was that when the lorry started to turn to the right the car hit it a glancing blow. The lady put her foot down to apply the brake in her car, but her foot slipped on to the accelerator and the car crashed into the shop. McLeod admitted that he did not put out his hand to indicate that he was turning to his right. McLeod was fined £2 and costs, £1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 11
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