MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED
.MOTOR-’BUfc COLLISION.
DRIVER BEFORE COURT
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night
Arising out of the accident on Mannkau road on the evening of August 10, when a cyclist, Allen Basil Banks, aged 17, received fatal injuries through being involved in a collision with a inolor’bus, the driver of the ’bus, Harold Bruce Hall, pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaughter before- -Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court to-dav.
Deceased, with three companions, was riding home from town when the accident occurred. In a written statement, read by Constable G. Smith, accused said that the visibility was rendered bad by a blurred windscreen. Suddenly he saw the three cyclists ahead, none having tail lights or reflectors. It was too late to swerve and lie. jammed on the brakes, the ’bus skidded on the wet road and lu 1 came to rest within about twelve feet.
Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial and bail was fixed at £IOO, with a surety of a similar amount.
The coroner found that deceased was killed through being knocked from bis cycle by the ’bus driven by Hall.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 4
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191MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 4
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