FAILED TO STOP
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(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. Arthur Haig, aged 19, a shoe.improver, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court ^or sentence on two cliarges of failing to stop. after an accident, Evidouce %yas to the effect that accused rented a car on September 4 and tliat he knocked down a telegraph messenger on a cycle and afterwards struck a car but did not stop. A witness, who took kis number, said that aceused slowed down and appeared to be looldng tkrough the rear window. In a statement read in Court, aceused said, in effect, that'he conld uQt ayoid the boy on the cycle, because he was foreed to by another car passing outside him, and the boy was proceeding in an uncertain manner, He struck the stationary car because of a miscalculation. He was confused after the accident. He could kave stopped deacl but, because of kis confused state, ke did uot do so. He did stop afterwards and tken again went on. On a cliarge of driving witkout a lieenco ke was convicted and disckarged.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 5
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