FAILURE TO STOP AFTER ACCIDENT
TELEGRAPH MESSENGER KNOCKED DOW (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 27. Arthur Haig, aged 19 years, a shoe improver, was today committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges of failing to stop after an accident. The evidence was to the effect that accused rented a car on September 4 and that he knocked down a telegraph messenger on a bicycle and afterwards struck a car, but did not stop. A witness who took his number said accused slowed down and appeared to be looking through the rear window. In a statement read in court accused said in effect that he could not avoid the boy on the bicycle because he was forced on to him by another car passing outside him and the boy was proceeding in an uncertain manner. He struck the stationary car because of a miscalculation. He was confused after the accidents. He could have stopped dead, but because of his confused state did not do so. He did stop afterwards and then went on. On a charge of driving without a licence he was convicted and discharged. ____________
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Southland Times, Issue 23342, 28 October 1937, Page 3
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