MOTORISTS GAOLED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 13

MOTORISTS GAOLED

CHARGES OF NEGLIGENCE SEQUEL TO ACCIDENTS (Per Press Association.) DUNKtDIX, this day. In sentencing a motorist, Daniel Craig Alillcr Andrews, 32, a, married man, to six months' imprisonment for causing actual bodily harm under circumstances .that if death had occurred the accused would have been guilty of manslaughter. Mr. Justice Kennedy' said the accused had run down a cyclist while in a. state of intoxication, and had driven an unsighted oar on the wrong side. It was fortunate that the death of the cyclist did not result from his negligence. The accused was also disqualified from obtaining a license'for three years. " Ueorge McGavin O'Kane, a young man, for negligently driving a motor ear, causing the death of Stanley Omand, a motor cyclist, at Roxburgh, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.' The judge took into account the fact that the-'jury considered the'negligence to be due to oyer-fatigue. There was, however, no need for the accused to boon the road at all alter having spent the evening in festivity, lie had also narrowly escaped a collision with another cat*. * In a well-lighted spot accused ran down the cyclist and left him on the road, with his own tyre punctured and the mudguards dented. The accused's statement, next morning created more than a suspicion that he 1 was conscious of the collision. The accused was also disqualified from obtaining a license for three years.