TRAFFIC BREACHES.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19984, 7 September 1936, Page 8

TRAFFIC BREACHES.

BEQUELS TO ACCIDENTS. BOY FOUND ON ROADWAY. As the result of a collision in which he was involved with Traffic Inspector R. Metcalfe, James Hawthorn Elliott appeared before Mr S. L. Paterson, S. in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of falling to keep sufficiently to the left of the road. “It was unfortunate that defendant collided with a traffic inspector,” said Mr W. J. King in pleading guilty for Elliott. Mr King explained that the defendant had leaned over to wind up the window at the side of the car and the accident followed. The defendant was convicted and fined £2 and costs 13s. A formal plea of not guilty was entered by Joseph Raymond James to a charge of leaving a motor-lorry stationery in Anglesea Street without displaying three lights, two headlights and a tail light. Evidence was given by Victor Hugo Webber that on July 18 he nad been to a picture theatre and was returning home about 11 p.m. via Anglesea Street where he heard a crash. (Jn investigating he found a boy lying on the road near a motor-lorry with a bicycle on top of him. He turned the boy over and found him unconscious. It appeared that the boy bad hit the lorry, which protruded a little from the other vehicles parked near it. The scene was near the Alexandra Hall where a dance was in progress. There were no lights on the lorry. Constable A. Fowke stated that he was called to the scene of the accident and found the lorry protruding further out from the other vehicles. The nearest street light was 40 yards away. A schoolboy, Bertram Choat, aged 14 years, stated in evidence that he was returning home from the pictures on his bicycle, which was fitted with an electric light, which was functioning. He cycled along Anglesea Street but could remember nothing of the accident Defendant’s Contention. Defendant contended that there were several vehicles parked on either side of his lorry without lights. He had never seen vehicles outside the hall during dances with lights burning. There were no marks to show the cycle had collided with the lorry. He considered the vehicle was parked in a place adequately lighted. Defendant was convicted and fined 10s and costs 10s. For operating a trade motor without a driving license, Richard Mason was fined £1 with costs. For parking his car across a right-of-way F. W. Kemp was fined 10s with costs 10s, while Martin James Morris was fined 10s and costs 10s for leaving a motor vehicle parked on a water takle.