NEGLIGENT DRIVING
VICTIM DIES FROM PNEUMONIA MONETARY PENALTY IMPOSED. (Peb United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, July 30. A fine of £2O was imposed on Michael Marinovich, aged 28, in the Supreme Court to-day for negligent driving of a van so as to cause bodily harm.
Mr Justice Herdman said the circumstances were unusual. The prisoner's van had struck a man and broken his leg, but in hospital he developed pneumonia and died. His Honor was bound to take into consideration that, though the jury had acquitted the prisoner on the major charge of negligent driving and causing death, it had found him negligent. It seemed that if the" prisoner had obeyed the ordinary rule of the road the accident would not have occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22328, 31 July 1934, Page 11
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122NEGLIGENT DRIVING Otago Daily Times, Issue 22328, 31 July 1934, Page 11
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