TRUCK DRIVER SENT TO GAOL
COLLISION WITH PASSENGER BUS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 16. William Albert John Gray Kempton, the driver of a truck that collided with the Carterton-Masterton bus and failed to stop was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court. Mr Justice Smith said he could not accept the view that the prisoner thought he had struck a watertable. The blow must have been severe and it was a matter of good fortune that the persons in the bus were not seriously injured. He had come to the conclusion that the statute had been directly enacted to assist in preserving the safety of travellers on the highway and, in his judgment, it had to be enforced and the only W’ay it could be enforced was by imprisonment.
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Southland Times, Issue 23307, 17 September 1937, Page 9
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139TRUCK DRIVER SENT TO GAOL Southland Times, Issue 23307, 17 September 1937, Page 9
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