WOMAN DRIVER'S CIGARETTE
Explaining that she was accepting a lighted cigarette when her motor car ran into a stationary one, Bliss Peggy Grcgson, of Cromwell Crescent, Earl's Court, SAB 7 ., was fined £lO at Reading for driving in a dangerous manner at Thealo, near Reading, and she was disqualified from driving for twelve months. Police Constable Harris stated that the moti r car approached Theale at dusk along the Bath road at about fifty miles an hour, and that when he gave the signal to atop it swerved, ran on to the path, and crashed into the back of a stationary motor ear, turning it over. Bliss Gregson told the magistrate that she did not see the constable, and that it was when she was accepting & lighted cigarette that she saw the stationary car. She swerved to avoid it* but failed.
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Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 2
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141WOMAN DRIVER'S CIGARETTE Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 2
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