DANGEROUS DRIVER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 5

DANGEROUS DRIVER

HAWKE’S BAY LADY DRIVER FINED IN LONDON .

MILS. CHAPMAN COLLIDES WITH CAR.

IN TER N A TION AL C.R IC ly FT EPS IN COURT.

United Press Absii. by El. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Feb 7 Several cricketers appeared at rl>e Marlborough Police (’mart when Mrs. Chapman, wife of tho test team captain and a sister of Lovvrv, the New Zealand cricketer vns summoned for dangerous driving. Mr. M. L‘. J.von, the A-,corset batsman, defended M:s. Chapman. A policeman g..ve ovidinee ibao defendant dm re dean Laugh; m Place at a. speed of from lb to 20 miles per hour. She did not slacken speed and coll filed with a car at a crossing. When told she would go summoned she said: “l 'suppose it will bo a fiver. 1 am a stranger in London and am not used to driving here.”

Cross-examined, witness said fie would not admit the speed was only eight miles an hour. Defendant., giving evidence, sain she was driving her husband and a friend. -She did not see the policeman owing to the monument. When she saw the other car she jammed on the brakes immediatelv.

The magistrate suggested that .she ought, to have gone .slower.-

Defendant replied; “If I had gone quicker J would have got through ” Chapman, giving evidence, estimated the speed at ]() miles, per hour. He narrated that wiien be told the policeman his name he asked, “A.P.F?” Witness replied in the affirmative and the policeman then said: “That makes the case worse. You ought to plead the monument as an excuse. It has caused a lot of trouble.”

Witness added lie hud vismed the spot since, and ,c was impossible to see a policeman at night time owing to the monument.

Iho magislr.i-o oxpr.-s-.ed the opinion that the pivs-meo of the monument only necevutiirod gteater caution and fined defendant £7, with £3 costs. Doiondam s booms'* also was suspended for - 1\- w.-eks