MAN KILLED BY MOTOR TRUCK
DRIVER ALLEGED TO BE RACING
HTiS COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL. '
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Christchurch, Last Night.
On February 4, a cyclist, Joseph Rogal, received fatal injuries when knocked down by a motor-truck driven by John Edward Cook, storekeeper, of Amberley. Cook was to-day charged in the Magistrate’s ' Court with negligently _ driving the motor-truck, thereby causing the dea th of Rogal. He pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. It was alleged on behalf of the Crown that Cook was racing with another motor-truck on the' Marshland Road, driving at a speed which different witnesses estimated at from 30 to 45 miles an hour. When overtaking Eogal Cook swerved to the right, but not sufficiently to avoid him.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 4
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