RECKLESS DRIVING
• “BAD CASE OF SPEEDING” LICENSE ENDORSED AND FINED Per Press Association. DARGAVILLE, April 15. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Reginald Glanville Trimble, a taxi proprietor of Whangarei, was fined £l6, and coats, and also had his license endorsed for three years, for reckless driving of a motor-car on the Whanga-rei-Dargaville road. Tho evidence showed that the defendant did the journev between the two towns, which usually takes with good ’driving well over two hours, in one hour and twenty minutes. The Magistrate, Mr T. F. Levien, said iu wae a bad case of speeding, but as it was the first of the kind heard in the district, he would only inflict a fine. If the* defendant came before him again within three years he would not bo dealt with so leniently. In another case, a local resident, EL dred Irving, charged with negligent driving, was fined £5, and his license waa endorsed In this case the defendant collided with a stationary car on the corner of a dangerous bend. The evidence showed that it was more a matte** of error of judgment and want, of experience y *
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12422, 16 April 1926, Page 11
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189RECKLESS DRIVING New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12422, 16 April 1926, Page 11
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