CAR AMOK WITH DRUNKEN DRIVER

Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 7

CAR AMOK WITH DRUNKEN DRIVER

PEDESTRIAN KNOCKED DOWN MANY CHARGES AGAINST YOUTH [Peb United Pbbss Association.] AUCKLAND, February 27. A sensation was caused in the Karangahapo road a few minutes after ]() o’clock on Saturday night by an intoxicated youth in a “borrowed” motor car, which was unable to take the bend in the road, and mounted the footpath, knocked down a pedestrian, and then collided with the safety zone. When the car stopped, Constable Wilson, who was standing under the verandah, promptly arrested the sole occupant, Robert Joseph Charles Draper (aged seventeen). A pedestrian, Mr Thompson, was picked up, and after being attended to was admitted to Auckland Hospital. Yesterday his condition caused some anxiety, but this morning he was reported to be out ol danger and progressing satisfactorily. His injuries consist of a fractured right humerus and fractured right rib. Draper was brought before Mr 1. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court this morning, when he was charged with unlawfully converting a motor car, valued at £2OO, to his own use, being in a state of intoxication while m charge of a car, having no license to drive, driving in a reckless and negligent manner so as to cause injury to David Thompson, and with wilfully damaging the car to the extent of £6 3s 6d. , Mr J. J. Sullivan appeared lor accused, who admitted the charges. _ However, at the suggestion of Seniorsergeant Cummings, no plea will be taken in answer to the charge of reckless and negligent driving, causing injury, until Thompson is able to leave hospital. Draper was remanded in custody until March 3, when all the charges will he heard.