AN UNLUCKY MOTORIST.
JIPSBTS CAE TO SAVE' COLLISION, 'AND THEN BROUGHT TO COURT. (Br AMo'olaUou.) Timaru, June 1. Eden, the owner of a car plying for ■fcire, was charged at tlio Magistrates Court with driving on a public road by night without lights. The case was dismissed on a piece of delicate evidence. Eden was alleged to have been on the wronf: side and to have met a motor-cycle, [with lights, on a wide road. • To avoid a collision he had suddenly turned his car right round, upset it, and was pinned beneath. The charge was dismissed on evidence that he told the oyclisfc who came to bis aid to put- out the lights for fear the petrol would be fired, and ho.would be burned with the car. They were, then out, however, and another who witnessed tho occurrence observed that the inside pf the bottom of tho kerosene headlight was smoked as if.wikh burning a-white Upside down.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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158AN UNLUCKY MOTORIST. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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