NEGLIGENT DRIVING TRIAL

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 257, 29 July 1942, Page 8

NEGLIGENT DRIVING TRIAL

The trial continued in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday of Douglas Hector MacDonald Bruce, aged 41, garage proprietor, who is charged with negligent driving causing the death of Anthony Sutherland, failing to stop after an accident, and failing to ascertain whether, he had injured- anyone. Mr. Justice Blair in on the bench. Mr, W. H. Cunningham is prosecuting and Dr. O. C. Mazengarb is appearing for Bruce. Witnesses heard yesterday were Warnes Gardner Reid, the first constable to reach the scene of the accident near Tawa J; lat,, Garret Hogan, a detective connected with the investigations into the accident, Lance Ranfurly Lincoln Dunn, who pieced together fragments of glass from the scene of the accident and what remained of the windscreen of accused’s car, John Stanley Reid, a wood technologist, who found similarities in samples of wood from the bridge railing just past where Sutherland was hit and fragments found on accused s car, Stuart Henry John Wilson, who detailed scientific similarities between these woods, and Umberto Primo Calcinai, who detailed the condition of accused's car after the accident. The case will be continued today.