BARRED FROM DRIVING
SPEEDING MOTORIST PERIOD OF A MONTH (I'ur Truss Association.) . NEW PLYMOUTH, this clay. The extreme step of cancelling a man’s driving license for, the offence o£ operating a motor vehicle .without due care, was taken in the? Stratford Police Court to-day by Mr. W, H, Woodward, S.M., when he disqualified W. R. Mason, farmer, Kahouri road, Ngaere, from holding a license for a month and fined him the maximum penalty of £4.
It was the first time a license had been cancelled for such an offence in Taranaki.
The case was described by Sergeant Anniss as very serious. Hfe said that just after 5 p.m. on November 13, a Post and Telegraph lorry was returning to Stratford through some excavation works, when the driver saw a car approaching him at an excessive speed. He put the lorry right up against the bank to avoid a collision, but Mason’s,car did not slacken speed and hit the side of the lorry, careered on for 150 ft. and overturned. The speed of Mason’s car was estimated to be 45 miles an hour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19808, 9 December 1938, Page 14
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