EIGHTY-MILE-AN-HOUR CHASE
INSPECTOR A FORMER DIRTTRACK RIDER. [ Per Press Association 1 CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 13. An Air Force man who gave a traffic inspector “ninety”, and refused to stop, appeared before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., to-day when an 80-mile-an-hour chase was described. Kenneth Alexander Finlayson admitted three charges for failing lo stop when directed by an inspector. He was fined £2O and costs and his licence was cancelled for two years. For dangerous driving and driving without a licence he was fined £l. The prosecutor said that not only was his speed grossly excessive, but Finlayson turned without signalling, cut corners, and tried to ride the inspector off the road. He was only stopped by a puncture. The chase lasted for four miles and the inspector's siren was going most of the time. The defence was that Finlayson knew that Inspector Lunn was a good dirt-track rider in his pro-inspector days and decided to "open up.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 8
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