INTOXICATED DRIVER
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT ( Per Preu Asso-latluD. ] TIMARU, April 19. “This is a serious offence and you’re fortunate that you’re not charged with a more serious offence, in that you might have killed someone in the other car,” said the magistrate, Mr. H. Morgan, in the Police Court this morning when Michael Joseph Brosnahan. single, labourer, aged 50, of Kerrytown, who pleaded guilty to intoxication while in charge of a car. He was fined £2O and his licence was cancelled until June 1, 1939, and he was ordered to pay medical expenses. The charge was a sequel to a collision near Arowhenua on Saturday night when Brosnahan veered into an approaching vehicle containing four passengers, one of whom was thrown through the windscreen and suffered minor injuries. Brosnahan w’as injured also. Both vehicles -were extensively damaged.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 8
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136INTOXICATED DRIVER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 8
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