WILD CAREER IN BORROWED CAR.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 February 1928, Page 7

WILD CAREER IN BORROWED CAR.

SENSATION IN CITY STREETS AUCKLAND, Last Night. A sensation was caused in Karangahape road a few minutes after 10 o’clock on Saturday night by an intoxicated youth in a borrowed raotor-cai which was unable to take the bend in the road. It mounted the footpath, knocked down a pedestrian and then collided with the safety zone. When the car stopped Constable Wilson, who was standing under a verandah, promptly arrested the sole occupant, Charles Draper, aged 17. The peclstrian, Mr Thompson, was picked up and after being attended to was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Yesterday his condition caused some anxiety, but this morning he was reported to be out of danger and progressing satisfactorily. His injuries consist of n fractured right humerus and. fractured right rib. Draper was brought before Mr K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court this morning when he was charged with unlawfully converting a motor-car valued at £2OO to his own use, being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car, having no license to drive, driving in a reckless and negligent, manner so as to cause injury to David Thompson, and with wilfully damaging a car to the extent of £63/6. Mr ,T. ,T. Sullivan appeared for the accused, who admitted the charges. However, at the suggestion of SeniorSergeant Cummings, no plea will bo taken in answer to the charges of reckless and negligent driving and causing injury until Thompson is able to leave the hospital. Draper was remanded in custody until March 3 when all the charges will be heard. *.