“GOT THE WIND UP”
TRUCK-DRIVER’S PLEA
FATAL ACCIDENT CASE
(Pat Pros* Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. “I was too frightened to tell the police. I got the wind up and thought I would clear out. I did not know until the police told me that the man was dead.” In these words, Charles Archibald Risely, a labourer, aged 26. a married man, with one child, explained why he failed to stop last Saturday night when the half-ton motor truck he was driving struck and killed Arthur Sydney Harper while the latter, with his young son, was cycling down Herbert street.
Risely appeared before Mr. R. C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to charges of negligent driving causing death arid failing to stop after an accident, involving injury, to ascertain whether he had injured any person. After evidence had been taken, he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on both charges. Bail was allowed on the accused’s own recognisance of £IOO and a surety of £IOO, accused to report daily to the police.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 16
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