MILKMAN KILLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 9

MILKMAN KILLED

motorist asleep at wheel Driving home in the early morning from the Chelsea Arts Ball. Robert Kenneth Tinkler, the noted Lc-ndon tennis player, knocked down and killed a milk salesman. When he appeared at Ealing he explained: “I did not see the barrow. $ must nave gone to sleep at th» wheel. Had I imagined that I would go to -eep I would have taken steps to keep myself awake.” Tinkler was fined £5 for dangerous driving and ordered to pay £5 5s costs. His licence was suspended for a year. Prosecuting, Mr. E. G. B. Taylor contended that a driver who allowed himself to fall asleep was a grave danger to the public. Mr. T. Springer, who de fended, observed that every motorist had found himself at some time nodding off to sleep. Was it, he asked, going to be said that a man had committed a criminal offence when he was not aware of what ho was doing? He submitted that before a man could be said to be driving dangerously he must be wide awake.