POLICE TRAFFIC CASES HEARD IN WANGANUI
Charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday with failing to give way to other traffic when changing direction at the intersection of Moana and Duncan Streets, Alice Kiana Peers was fined £2, costs 10s, by Mr S. S. Preston, S3f. On a further charge of not having a driver’s licence she was convicted and ordered to pay costs only, 10s. Both offences were admitted.
Senior-Sergeant F. Culloty said that at 7.40 p.m. on September 18 de- j fendant was driving a car in a north- ■ erly direction along Moana Street. when she made a right-hand turn into Duncan Street in front of a car • approaching from the opposite direction. She failed to give way and a collision occurred. Mr N. R. Bain, for defendant, suo- I mitted that the offence was not a bad | one. Failure to give way was admit- j ted, but there was hesitancy on the part of the other driver. There was no question of speed, the damage was slight and nobody was injured. Mr Bain added that at 3 p.m. that day defendant had an appointment to obtain her driver’s licence, but the traffic officer found that he could not take her till next day, otherwise she would have held a licence at the time of the accident. For 24 years defendant had been a licensed driver. Marie Smith was fined £l, costs 10s, for not having a warrant of fitness for a car, and for not having a driver’s licence was fined 10s, costs 10s. For the police it was stated that defendant, who was driving her father s car, was involved in a collision with a pedestrian. She had overlooked obXing her driver’s licence and the rant of fitness was nine months overdue.
Noel Preston Hooper, who did not have a warrant of fitness for a van, was fined 10s, costs 10s.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 November 1950, Page 6
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