THAMSE ROAD COLLISION

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5236, 8 February 1928, Page 2

THAMSE ROAD COLLISION

ACCIDENT IN SEPTEMBER LAST.

CONVICTION AND FINE INFLICTED The collision on Thames Road on September 9 last, between a motorcar and a motor-cycle ridden r>y ITr.i Bennett, Junction Street, Paeroa. bad its sequel at the Paeroa Police Court on Monday, before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., when Herbert James rTar“H, farmer, Maratoto (Mr A. G. T. Bryan) was charged with, on September 9, 1927, driving a motor-car on the Pae-roa-Thames road in a manner dangerous to the public. At the December sitting of the Court, after much evidence had been taken, the ease was adjourned to enable the evidence of Hui Bennett, who was, an inmate of. the Thames Hospital, to be considered and an inspection of the road m.ade. At Monday’s sitting of the Court the magistrate gave his decision in the case. He sta.ted that on December 6 he had visited t’he scene of the accident and had found, that the road was fairly steep and naijrow, but that two cars could pass; comfortably. He was satisfied, on the evidence and after an examination of the scene of the accident, that the ■ defendant came up the hill on his wrong side and hurriedly tried to get over on to his correct side when Bennett came round the corner, as disclosed by the torn tyres, on the car and marks bln the road; Bennett was not charged with any offence, but undoubtedly he was travelling too fast. However, that fact did not relieve the defendant of the duty of approaching a hilltop well on his correct side. Harris would be convicted and fined £3, and ordered to pay costs amounting to £4 '9s. '