CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
—— MOTORIST COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.—Prcae Association.) Christohurch, August 25. .'At the Magistrate's Court to-day Piercs Power appeared on remand to answer to- the charge of causing tho death of Frederick. Charles Binns, and thereby committing the orime of manslaughter. The case arose out of the recent motor-car fatality. The evidence tendered was on tho lines of that given at the inquest. Mr. H. M'lntosh, City Council traffic inspector, said one of his duties was to examine drivers of. motor vehicles before issuing certificates of fitness. The defendant's car, loaded as it was, and under the existing road conditions, should be capable of being pulled up in its own length, if going at 10 miles per hour, and if the brakes were in proper order; at 4 miles per hour it should pull up in half its length; at 20 miles per hour it should pull up in three to four lengths under the road 1 conditions as then existed. Power was committed for trial.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 7
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168CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 7
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