PUSHED ANOTHER CAR OVER CROSSING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 13

PUSHED ANOTHER CAR OVER CROSSING

Dangerous Driving Charge

Stated bv Senior-Sergeant H. C. D. Wade in the Magistrates’ Court, Petone, yesterday, to have been driving his car so close to another approaching Petone railway crossing that when the warning bells started to ring he collided with the car ahead, pushing it over the line and crossing himself, Thomas Gunn Blair was lined £l, with costs 19/-, for crossing the line when it was not clear. He was fined £l, with costs 12/-, for dangerous driving. Senior-Sergeant Wade said that both cars escaped the train. For defendant, Mr. W. P. Coles said that the driver of the car ahead jammed his brakes on suddenly when six feet off the crossing. “Circumstances do arise when a motorist has every intention of obeying a railway signal and yet fails to do so,” said Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M. Defendant, however, must have been driving fairly close to the other car. Ronald Abrams, Wellington, was fined £l, with costs 10/-, for overtaking within 30 feet of an intersection. Inspector A J. Archer prosecuted. David Wiren, Wellington, was ordered to pay costs, 10/-, for not haring an effective silencer on a motor-eycle. Thomas Tullock was fined £l, . with costs 10/-, for driving without a licence and £l, with costs 10/-, for driving at night without lights. Clarence Field, Lower Hutt, was fined 10/-, with costs 10/-, for driving without due care and attention.