Tried To Run Down Traffic Officer

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31083, 11 June 1966, Page 18

Tried To Run Down Traffic Officer

(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON. A young woman who tried to knock a Transport Department officer from his motorcycle during a high-speed chase around Hamilton and Cambridge was fined £l5 today and prohibited from driving for five years.

She is Julie Anne Milne, aged 19, married, of Hamilton. She appeared before Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., on a charge of dangerous driving and failing to stop when requested. Traffic Officer N. G. Hopper said that when he was in Garden place about 8.30 p.m. Milne pulled up in a car and started a disturbance with several other girls and youths in another car. “I told her to move her car and she drove off, failed to take a left-hand corner, hit a lamp post and skidded 86ft on the grass verge before stopping,” he said.

“She drove off when I stopped to speak to her and drove at me several times when I pulled alongside her car. We reached speeds up to 70 miles an hour. When we reached Cambridge I pulled in front of her and when I looked around the front of her car was about two inches from the back of my motorcycle, so I accelerated away again.” Hopper said he obtained assistance from the Hamilton police and Milne was apprehended after her car got out of control and ran into a heap of sand on a roadside.