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DANGEROUS DRIVING FINE ALSO IMPOSED (Special to the Herald.) WAIROA, this day. Charged on the information of the Transport Department's inspector, Mr. C. M. Pilkington, with driving a motor car in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public, James Clarence Bassett, of Waikaremoana, was fined £lO and his driver’s license was cancelled for three months by Mr. A. Coleman, S.M., in the Wairoa Police Court yesterday.
The traffic inspector gave evidence that at 2.30 p.m. on September 13 he was on duty on the Napior-Wairoa main highway when a car passed him at what he estimated at 50 miles an hour. The driver of the car increased his speed to 00 miles an hour and continued at that speed through what was known as the Turiroa cutting. This was a dangerous piece of road alongside the Wairoa River and had numerous sharp bends.
The defendant drove very erratically, added the witness, and took several bends on his wrong side. Had he met a car coming in the opposite direction there might have been a crash, and one of the cars might have been pitched into the river.
Witness said he eventually overhauled the defendant. The car he was driving was a three-sealer and the defendant had two companions with him, both of whom were drunk.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 12
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220LICENSE CANCELLED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 12
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