UNIQUE EXCUSE
WOMAN MOTORIST “I NEVER LOOK BEHIND” LONDON. Sept. 5. Mrs. Charlotte Newson Collins, 70-year-old widow and a “pillar" of the Methodist Church in Carlisle, is a woman with her own ideas.
Dropping some friends at their homes one Sunday, she turned her car across the road and collided with an oncoming car. Subsequently she faced a charge of careless driving. Definite in voice and manner, she told the court: “I put out my indicator before turning.”
A police superintendent mentioned that the highway code says you must look before starting to move.
“Do you think that when an indicator is put out it gives you command c£ the road?” he asked. Mrs. Collins lost none of her defin-
iteness: “I think that is quite sufficient. It is not my practice to look behind.” Mrs. Collins was fined £2 and had her license endorsed. Said the chairman, "in future you must look behind."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 4
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154UNIQUE EXCUSE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 4
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