NO THIRD TRIAL
By Telegraph—Press Association.
CASE AGAINST MOTORIST POINT OF IMPORTANCE
Christchurch, Last Night. The Crown has decided not to pursue further its case against Frank Rowland Coe, a farmer of Amberley, who was on trial this week on a charge of driving a motor-truck negligently on the main north road on May 8, thereby causing the death of a cyclist, Albert Hadler. Coe was tried twice N before Supreme Court juries, but each time | the jury disagreed. _ ; The' principal point the junes were asked to determine, which Mtj Justice Northcroft held to be of national importance, was whether Coe should have stopped his truck when the glaring lights of an oncoming vehicle appeared likely to dazzle him.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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119NO THIRD TRIAL Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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