PHAETON IN COLLISION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 15

PHAETON IN COLLISION

POLICE COURT SEQUEL

NEGLIGENCE alleged

A'sequel to an accident which-occurred ori. September IS adjacent- U> ,fiic . Wi Pere Memorial, irt Reiui’a.- qutiy,.. was heard iix the Police Court, this, artornoouj when Percival Frederick; Butler was charged with negligently motor vehicle. The case for the -police.: was conducted, .before ..Mr. ..£«. I>. SJL, by Senior-Sergeant J. F- B, -Macnal?i»Ta, ’ while Mr. ,M. It. Maude appfeiired ■ John MpKay,. a, : .retired wa.towtde ■warker residing at.-FamaJcau, stated,:: that owing to his crippled Le gM abdut in a phaeton... On September; ;,Ig t hAr drove to tow.ti,:iifc 4 jtitiis-, m; CP®*’ phhy with his somih-lawj with;.whom; he visited an hotel, staying! .thof-e ioc. two hMrs. Ho had three “handles ’, them, and left, perfectly sober, -afc.6.p-m>, to rfihrn to his phaeton.: Witness . drove thief phaeton, which had. both, lajnps. lit, a wav from the Lowe street curb, turn-. uMqto Bead’s quay.. When the, veldhle Wm; just completing the turn- the, horse WAflK'struck by a motor, car driven by the defendant. Tlio defendant later.: appeared a bit shaken,. bnt'witriess, dm-not notice any signs of liquor on him. Witness sent for the police.. • Under cross-examination, the witness said that his horse and all. but. one tear wheel of the phaeton was overtbe crawl} of Bead’s quay when the horse was struck by the car n -■ James Barber, an unemployed laborer, corroborated the previous-- witness’ .evi; deiice. He said that" th.e.. car which struck the horse was going.very.fast,;and had driven straight into the Horse s Chest. . In reply to Mr. Maude,, witness skid that he had first seen the car coming when it was opposite-the hack gatepf the Albion Hotel. The. buggy was slightly over the crown of the road to its .wrong side after the. Bobert Farmer, a fisherman, described the accident, of which he was. att.-ey* witness. He said, that neither McKay nor Butler was under the influence, of tor. The light on the buggy,, or eton, was burning clearly prior to the collision. ... ....... .. • ••>,■ John McKay, junior, .grandson of trie first witness, also gave evideq.ee, he having been one of those in;;the phaeton at the time of the collision.

(Proceeding.)