SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT
CHARGES AGAINST MOTORIST COMMITTED FOR TRIAL [ Per Press Association. J WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. Arthur Haig, aged 19, shoe improver, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges of failing to stop after an accident. The evidence was to the effect that accused rented a car on September 4 and that he knocked down a telegraph messenger on a bike and afterwards struck a car, but did not stop. A witness, who took his number, said that the accused slowed down and appeared to be looking through the rear window. In a statement read in Court accused said in effect that he could not avoid the boy on the bike because he was forced on to him by another car passing outside him, and the boy was proceeding in an uncertain manner. He struck a stationary car because of a miscalculation. He was confused after the accident. He could have stopped dead, but because of his confused state he did not do so. He did stop afterwards and then again went on. On the charge of driving without a licence he was convicted and discharged.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 9
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