DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 10

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS

\: Menace to Life GARAGE OWNERS' RESPONn SIBILITY. v (From "Truth's" Taranaki Rep.) .That motor garage proprietors have some responsibility devolving upon them when,- drunken motorists bring ' cars.' to the garages was the suggestion . made by. Mr. Justice, Alpers in 'tfhe Supreme Court -at New Plymouth last week, when passing sentence on a drunken motorist who had been responsible for the death of a youth on, the road. Following the accident, the accused 'had taken his car to a garage for repair. His Honor' suggested that whemia motorist under the influence of liquor brought his car to a garage for temporary repair, the " garage proprietor should endeavour to delay the repair until the morrow. If the motorist, however, persisted m driving away and the case was a serious one, then the police should be advised. 'It might be that garapo proprietors would hesitate to take such a step where regular customers were concerned but the police, if requested to do so, would treat anyf information so received as confidential. .. In the case under notice, m addition to sentencing the prisoner . to six months' imprisonment, the Judge exercised the powers, conferred on him under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1924, and disqualified the prisoner from obtaining a drivers' license ' for a perio,d of six. years. j ..,■■•■ '