NEGLIGENT DRIVING

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 23 July 1937, Page 3

NEGLIGENT DRIVING

Two MONTHS’ HARD LABOR

TIMARU, Last night

Tw. months’ imprisonment with hard >or, and disqualification from obtain : . X a driver's license for three year- 'ter the expiration of his present li' imse, which itself was cancelled. vas the sentence imposed today os Thomas Hunter Dowie for negligently driving a motor car at Makikihi on May 14th, thereby causing the death of Ivan Davies. “If I followed my own inclinations, 1 would accept the view that what Iso happened since the accident was a -nllicient deterrent, hut I have a duty to deter others,” stated Mr Justice Norl hero ft when passing sentence in the Supreme Court. “The aocusi : v\;i- driving 1 too Lost, was on the wr _ side of the road, and was not hi dim a proper lookout. He was driving with that wanton irresponsildiily and recklessness of others on the road, though it is unlikely to occur amain in the accused’s ease. Unhnt I'v. it will he done by others.”