SEQUEL TO CRASH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 6

SEQUEL TO CRASH

FINED AND DELICENSED RUATORIA TRADESMAN INTOXICATED .AT WITrSL __ ip (Special to the Herald.) RUATORIA, this day. Pleading guilty in the Ruatona Police Court this morning to a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor vehicle, George Richardson, a Ruatoria carpenter, was convicted and fined £ls and had his license cancelled for 12 months. The case was heard by Messrs. I. S. C. Dalgairns and R. F. Jackson, J.P’s.

Constable Tuck, who conducted the case against Richardson, stated that when returning to Ruatoria last evening in his motor-lorry, the defendant had suffered a mishap, his lorry going off' the read and crashing into a bank, with some damage to the vehicle and slight injuries to a passenger who was travelling in the cab with Riehardson.

Investigations at the scene of the accident, and for some distance beyond that point, showed that the tracks of the vehicle had .swayed from side to side of the road for more than a mile of travel, before the accident occurred. Just before leaving the, road, the lorry had travelled a distance of six chains on the wrong side of the highway, and had then turned sharply to the left, coming back equally sharply and apparently out of control. It then came to rest, with a forceful impact, against the roadside bank.

When interviewed by Constable Tuck, the defendant was obviously intoxicated, and was placed under arrest at once.