Radar Beam Check Convicts Motorist
WANGANUI, June 13. Described as the lirst case of its kind in New Yealand, the driver of a heavily laden motor truck was convicted in the Magistarte's Court today, largely on tlie evidence of \the Trans,port Department microwave radar speed detector. A Transpo'rt Department inspector tjold the Court he wa1? working the equipment on the Great North Road | when defendant's truck entered the l radar beam and was cheeked over a quarter of a mile. This was followed immediately by a chase and speedometer check wliich sho'wed only one mile per liour difference from the scientifie clieck. . x The Magistrate preferred the radar evidence' to defendant's assurance he was travelling ' 1 vcry slow. ; '
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1949, Page 3
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