TAUPO ROAD MISHAP
Claim For Damages Not Successful A claim for damages arising out oi! an accident near Te Pohue on August 2^ 1935, was heard by Mr, J. Miller, 8.M., in the Napier Magistrate's Conrt this morning, when F. R. Watters, Town Clerk of Napier, claimed £7 11/* from J. Young, of Hastings, aettler, The claim was non-suited. O11 August 2, explained Mr. Le Pine, the plaintiff was proceeding toward To Pohue on the' Napier-Taupo foad, and approached a left-hand bend in the road when an unidentified car, driven by a woman, came toward Napier at an excessive speed. The plaintiff pulL ed to the left, and stopped suddenly, and the defendant crashed into, the rear of the ear ahead, and caused the damage. Plaintiff said that he had passed the defendant some miles before the acci* dent, but had not gone far ahead. He did, not consider that defendant could see the approaching car. Most of the damage, he added, wa* caused by the fact that defendant '* bumper bar was missing, leaving two sliarp supports projecting. Witness had not had time to signal the stop. "I am not satisfied that the plaintiff has made out a case to be answered," Said the Bench at the conclusion of the submissions. "He will be non-suited."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 6
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