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Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 2

A mouse, a beetle and a cigaretteend were the respective causes of three motor accidents recently in England. In one case it was declared during court proceedings that a mouse jumped on to the shoulder of the driver of a motor car and the shock caused him to collide with a lamppost. In another case, it was related that when a man and his wife were motoring the wife felt a beetle crawling on’ her. Her husband, who was driving, tired to knock it off, but it reappeared. He was pulling up when his rear wheel caught a bicycle, which was upset. A third motorist said that when he threw a lighted cigarette out of the window of his car the wind blew it back. Without stopping, he picked it up, and while so doing his car ran into a street-lighting standard.