CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20174, 28 February 1931, Page 7

CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST.

< \ 1 ■ > 1 ' , " ■ NEGLIGENT ALUSGED. , , v ' "!■> i I ' y , , i COMMITTED FOR . r I& tho Magistrate 'k - I pel, totfitoto Messrs T. B. Laithead and A,: S.' S.P.% Leslie Nortean Mcfcitosh Qts of 425 Tuam charged witlf Walm&kariri bridge, on Jaawy 25th, and thereby*: causing * «»»«< BlrUnd Otrtintt. t DfctO. j£ Offi«i «»V0 JhrW&tf.'tf making 3$ examination of the bpdy of Gathutt, and dotoiribed tKo^i^Bbrlte4f*W- r "' those "that might htv6 been received ty * mai who fa t Wa' ids taotp*4ycle. Ho had examined »«" aft tW Jttb«vlflff 'of Jannwy the, rkqueat '<?£ the tqUM.., attongl;?, ojf* 1 Me istft slightly tttitttoift somewhat dftied. Ho statyd that/ he liad.had too sfl&k. Sto,. Mp' ifakter, Jw' Mud ;'i§>f know ana did Aot was a bad Speakei- at tie beat of times. In the caBB of to acoideut ha wpjwd ejepect the drlyerof the ear to oft °B«» and dafced,„ smell of alcohol lingered in th 6 breath for noma tapae aftM xt -was takes. How long it lingered would depend, on the &e considered waokiiig would obliterate the smell;; ■ ;v- " /»*'- Ijeonard, 0. Bartitt, taxi-driver,,. of - Raiapoi* and "Alafa Biehfcrds, assistant* of Kaiapoi, whoaceotapfcfiied him, repeated their evidettce fclvsii:'ttt> the iaqusst that oarbutt'had - passed them at the Marshland was about SOyards in '£r6ftt of 'their When the accident happened.' ,>£[o -'•♦ Mi on his right tide of tho road. Alan Jtiohards, examiaedby Mr Hunter, said'that he, knew the locality fairly well. The approach to thelmdge, waa Shingly,,and iheta.wete two tracks, coming from the aorth. When'hes&w the light# of MoX&tdsh»«; cat'it. its wrong tdde. fttid about 380 yards away. Whe&Qarbtttt left the bridge he drtspp&d j«it pf slight, and ha 'saw nothing ittrtli^r::«jf r hJm. ttatfl bin Ibpdjf vpts thrftwis In the air ifc ftoat headlights,; JHe thought £&f» r i^adf3^a| 1 '? over a chain wide, and both of; tracks were apt ,weU ,«>Vw'*o4 coming froto the north. { TKey bjftjh on thei left tho ro^d. Detectiye-SeVgeant said that he had photographed -thcr'scSme tlie acei' dent on Jftnuary look*' lag soatjiu showing the, »ppto*#f, bridge, and one looking the bridge. 1 !There road for ab0»t,2(50, 5 arde,- aK farther until the road.join^dthe^oittyrete,. The' road. Van more than a and there were' traekt,. the .drivers w«is isi their the oars not t?uch each'other. - To Mr Huatex, he said that if a ear was coming off the -bridgeVoa the lelfc tt should' be.-flttitOi applied to one earning tti>m the north.'- . ConMtablo J- iHolmes gava B«httar evidence to -that/given l at-th^innueet-