MOTORIST FINED
Negiigent Driving Ckarge CONSTABLE WHO JUMPED Charged with negiigent driving and failure to display proper lights on the evening. of October 23, James Wade, a Hastings labourer, was fined £5 and costs 10/- on the first charge and fined 10/- and costs 10/- on the second charge in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr. J. Mil- 5 lor, S.M. Constable Kearton gave evidence that when he tried to stop the vehicle, which was not displaying proper. lights, it had come straight at him and he had had to jump aside. The car continued round a corner where it collided with another car. In a statement made later the defendant said he had been very tired that night and was driving alone. He had no recollection of the constable signallir.g him to stop, nor did he remember striking another car. Senior-Sergeant Pender remarked that it was suspected that defendant was more than tired. The Magistrate agreed that there was a grave suspicion that the uexendant had been intoxicated.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 62, 6 December 1937, Page 8
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