HIT SAFETY ZONE
MOTORIST ALLOWED TO RETAIN LICENCE NO MORE DRINK After crashing into a Customs Street safety-zone last evening in an attempt to avoid another car, Ernest Roy Hood was arrested for being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle. He was fined £25 at the Police Court this morning* but was allowed to retain his licence on the condition that he took out a prohibition order. Mr. Dickson pleaded guilty on behalf of Hood, a warehouse manager aged 44, who hailed from Tasmania. According to Senior-Sergeant O’Grady accused had driven down Albert Street about six o’clock last evening and collided with a safety-zone after turning to the right into Customs Street. Sergeant Cullotty was nearby and took Hood to the police station, where he was examined by Dr, M. G. Pezaro at his own request. The senior-sergeant handed in the medical report, which stated that Hood, though not drunk in the sense of the man in the street, had had sufficient alcohol to impair his judgment in driving a car. Mr. Dickson described his client as a respectable business man, a member of a motor firm. When he struck the safety-zone he had been trying to avoid a car that had swung out of Little Queen Street. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: I know howeasy it is to hit the things. Mr. Dickson: Had it not been for the other car my client would not have been here today. The Magistrate: If it were not for accidents we should not catch half the men who appear on this charge. Counsel asked that Hood be allowed to retain his licence, referring to the offence as a border-line case. “If the licence is taken away he may lose his position,” added Mr. Dickson. “He has to drive on account of his position as head of a tyre firm. When a man drives a car for pleasure it is not such a severe punishment to cancel his licence, but it is a different thing for the man who drives in his business.” The Magistrate: If he has to drive in his business he shouldn’t drink at all.
The prohibition order was issued, counsel raising no objection.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 1
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365HIT SAFETY ZONE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 1
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