DANGEROUS DRIVING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 15

DANGEROUS DRIVING

MRS. CHAPMAN FINED lIAD A COLLISION IN LONDON (Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Eel). 8, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. Several cricketers appeared at- the Marlborough Police Court when. Mrs. Chapman, wife of the test team captain and a sister of Lowry, the New Zealand, cricketer; was summoned for dangerous driving. ilr. M. I). Lyon, the Somerset batsman, defended Mrs. ( liapman. A policeman gave evidence that defendant drove down Langham Place at a speed of from 45 to 20-miles per hour. She- <kicl not slacken speed and collided with a car at a crossing. When told she would be summoned she said: “I suppose it will be a fiver. lam a stranger in London and am not used to driving here.” Cross-examined, witness said lie would, not admit the speed was only eight, miles per hour. Defendant, giving evidence, said she was driving her husband and a friend. , She- did not -see the policeman owing to the monument. When she saw the other car she jammed on the - brakes immediately. The magistrate, suggested that she ought-to have gone slower. Defendant replied: “If a had gone quicker I would have got through.’’ Chapman, giving evidence, estimated the speed at Id miles per hour. He narrated flint when lie told the policeman his name he asked, “A.P.E.”’ Witness replied in the alfirmalivp and the policeman then said: ‘‘That, makes the case worse. Von ought to plead, the monument as an excuse. It has caused a lot of trouble. ’ ’ Witness, added lie had visited the spot since, and ; it was impossible to ace a police-man at night time owing to the monument. The magistrate expressed the opinion that the presence of the monument, only necessitated greater caution and fined defendant £7, with £3 costs, Defendant’,s license also was suspended .for. six weeks.