Truck Driver Charged With Failing To Give Way To Tramcar

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 May 1948, Page 6

Truck Driver Charged With Failing To Give Way To Tramcar

A collision between a traincar and a motor-truck at the intersection of | Victoria Avenue and Ingestre Street on the night of Sunday, April 25, had , its sequel in the Magistrate’s Court, | Wanganui, yesterday, when the I driver of the truck, James Herbert ! Crafar, logging contractor, was i charged with failing to give way to i the tram. \ In a-statement read by Constable 1 Crowley, defendant said that at 7.40 p.m. he was driving in an easterly ■ direction along Ingestre Street at a ' speed of 18 to 20 miles an hour. At ' the intersection with Victoria Avenue , he looked in both directions, but saw nothing. When on the tram lines, j however, he saw a car approaching ( from the direction of St. John’s, but it was too late to do anything and the tram struck the rear wheel of the truck on the left-hand side. Nobody was injured. Rain was falling at the time and defendant’s view was obscured. He ] did not see the tram till it was almost on to him. Senior-Sergeant F. Culloty, who prosecuted, said weather conditions were not very good at the time. “He seems to have almost cleared the tram track," said Mr. J. H. Sal- ' mon, S.M. “In view of the weather conditions at the time, a fine of 30s and costs will be imposed. ' Costs amounted to 10s.