MOTORIST ACQUITTED
ALLEGED NEGLIGENT DRIVING. CYCLIST’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) Hastings, August 19. A verdict of not guilty was returned in favour of John Sylvester Pender, who was charged at the Supreme Court at Napier to-day with negligently driving a motor car and causing the death of a young man named Bruce Summersby. The case for the Crown was that Pender, in overtaking the deceased,. who was riding a cycle in company with a .young woman on another cycle, crashed into the deceased’s cycle, causing injuries which resulted in his death. The accused was alleged to be travelling at too great a speed and was not keeping a good look-out. The accused’s defence was that he was travelling at about 20 miles an hour and he was dazzled by the lights of an oncoming car. The jury retired for 16 minutes and returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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149MOTORIST ACQUITTED Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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