NEGLIGENT DRIVING
NINE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT SEQUEL TO WOMAN'S DEATH (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 27. A sentence of nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour, was passed on Frederick Nicholas Lindbolm, an electrician, by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court, and the accused was also prohibited from obtaining a motor driver's licence for five years. Lindbolm was found guilty last week of negligently driving a motor car so as to cause the death of Mrs Ivy Cavenett on May 9 last, when a motor car he was driving collided with a tramcar just after midnight and Mrs Cavenett, a passenger in Lindbolm's car, was thrown out and died from her injuries. The jury added a recommendation to mercy.
His Honor said that in September, 1936, the accused was convicted of being intoxicated in charge of a motor cycle and fined £5. His driver's licence was also cancelled for one year, and he was prohibited. There were also 11 previous convictions of various kinds against the accused. "My duty is clear," said the judge. "I am sorry for his parents, whom he said he was supporting, but this is not a case where a fine would meet the needs of justice."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 18
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