CYCLISTS KNOCKED DOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 7

CYCLISTS KNOCKED DOWN

DANGEROUS DRIVER FINED LIQUOR AFFECTED SENSES From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON. Wednesday. Following an accident on tlie Great South Road near Hamilton when two cyclists were knocked down by a motor-car, Ronald Noel Brown, 26, sawmiller, Orini, (Mr. W. J. King), appeared In the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court today. He was fined £lO, ordered to pay £3 16s 6d costs and his driver’s licence was suspended for six months for dangerous driving. Evidence was given that Reginald William Bennett, solicitor, Hamilton, and Leslie George Marquand, clerk, Hamilton j were cycling home on the date in question when they were overtaken by defendant's car and knocked down. Bennett received a fracture of the skull and is still incapacitated and Marquand was less seriously injured. Both cycles were damaged beyond' repair. Defendant said he and another man had spent the day in Hamilton. Thej 7 had had some liquor and no lunch. The visibility at the time of the accident was not good and there was a good deal of traffic. He did not see the cyclists until it was too late to pull up. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said he considered the accident was due to the fact that defendant had had sufficient drink to affect his senses. He was not keeping a proper look-out The light was at its worst at the time, and placed a higher responsibility upon motorists to take a greater degree of care than usual. Defend ant was not given time to pay the. fine, the magistrate remarking that lit had no sympathy with motorists Win drank.