FAILING TO STOP
CHARGES AGAINST MOTORIST SEQUEL TO ROAD ACCIDENTS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. Arthur Haig, aged 19, a shoe improver, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges of failing to stop after an accident. Evidence was given to the effect that the accused rented a car on September 4, and that he knocked down a telegraph messenger on a bicycle, and afterwards struck a car. but did not stop. The witness who took his number said that the accused slowed down and appeared to be looking through the rear window. In a statement read in court the accused said that he could not avoid the boy on the bicycle, because he was forced on to him by another car passing outside him, and the boy was proceeding in an uncertain manner He struck the stationary car because of a miscalculation. He was confused after the accidents. He could have stopped dead, but because of his confused state he did not do so. He did stop afterwards, and then again went on. On the charge of driving without a licence he was convicted and discharged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 16
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