FURIOUS DRIVING CHARGE

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 5

FURIOUS DRIVING CHARGE

FORTY YEARS AGO The following- report is taken from the Bournemouth (England) Times of 1896: “Archie Millership, a respectably dressed young man, of 36 Highfield Road, Birmingham, was summoned for furiously driving a motor car at Bournemouth on April 9th. Mr C. J. Lacey defended. P.C. Burgh stated that on Sunday, 9th inst., at 10.45 a.m., he was on duty at the Landsdown when defendant came along from Boscombe with a motor car, in which there were two other gentlemen. The car was being driven at a furious rate, from 16 to 20 m.p.h. He Went down the Old Christchurch Road. Witness stepped in front of the car, held up his hand, and shouted for him to stop. Witness could not say whether defendant saw him, but he took no notice and did not stop. After the car had passed, several complaints were made as to the furious driving. On the following day witness saw defendant at Westbourne, and asked him whether he was aware he was going at a furious pace on the previous day ? Defendant said he was aware he was going at a Tmsk pace, but he did not think it was furious. “Thomas Carpenter, commercial traveller for cycles, of Coventry, said that he knew this car. It could be stopped in three yards or even a yard. They could stop ‘dead’ and throw all the passengers off (laughter). “The' Chairman said the Bench considered defendant was driving too fast. They hoped that the penalty would act as a deterrant. If hot they must impose a heavier penalty. The defendant would be fined twenty shillings and costs.”