CHASE AT 80 MILES AN HOUR
TRAFFIC INSPECTOR AND AIR FORCE MAN (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 13. An Air Force man, who travelled at 80 miles an hour and refused to stop for a traffic inspector, appeared before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., today when an 80-miles-an-hour chase was described. Kenneth Alexander Finlayson admitted three charges. Fpr failing to stop when directed by an inspector he was fined £2O and costs and his licence was cancelled for two years; for dangerous driving and for driving without a licence he was fined £l. The prosecution said that hot only was the speed grossly excessive, but Finlayson turned without signalling, cut comers and tried to ride th inspector off the road. He was stopped only by a pv icture. The chase lasted for four miles and the inspector’s siren was going most of the time. The defence was that Finlayson knew Inspector Lunn was a good dirt-track rider in the days before he became an inspector and decided to “open up.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 15
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