DANGEROUS DRIVERS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 6

DANGEROUS DRIVERS

SEQUEL TO COLLISION WITH - - CYCLISTS SIX MONTHS’ GAOL IMPOSED. NINE MONTHS foe. A NOTH EE MOTORIST /Press Assfiniition ’ DUNEDIN, Feb. 10. • J.n •.sentencing a motorist, Daniel Qraig Miller Andrews, 32, a married man', r.n s : x months' imprisonment; f<u- causing actual bodily harm under circumstances that it death had occtirre<l the .accused would have been guilty of manslaughter,, Mr Justice Kennedy said the accused It ad run down a cyclist while in a state of intoxication, and had driven an unlighted car on the wrong side. It was fomiimo that the death of the cyclist did not result from his noph. genet*. The accused w.as also disqualified from obtaining a license for three years. George MeGavin O’Kane, a voting man, for negligently driving a motor > nv, causing the death of Stanley Omand, a motor cyclist, at Eoxburgh. was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. The judge took into account the fact that the jury considered the negligence to he due to over fatigue. Thera' was, however, no need for the. accused to be on the read at all after having snent the evening ii; festivity. He had also narrowly escaped a collision with iUir.-t.hcr ear. In a well-lighted spot accused ran down the cyclist and left him on the road with his own tyre punctured and Iho mudguards dented. The accused's statement next, morning created more than a susni-rir-n that ’no was conscious of thecel! is ion. The accused was also d’snunUficd from obtaining ,a license fnr three' years. .’