NEGLIGENT DRIVING

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2938, 19 September 1925, Page 2

NEGLIGENT DRIVING

MOTORIST FINED £5. At the local S.M. Court yesterday the Police proceeded against a Native woman, Moreltu Rainn Walker, of Oban, for negligently driving a motor ear in Johnston st. The ease was adjourned from last Court day. Mr. Bergin appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty. Constable Owen, in outlining the case, stated that at about 6 o’clock on tin* evening of June 241 h Mr. Woollerman, of Palmerston North, accompanied by another person,, was proceeding along Purcell St. in a ear in the direction of Foxton. When nearing the Johnston St. corner the occupants of the ear noticed lights of an approaching car in the cutting and pulled' over to their correct side. A ear driven by defendant, rounded the corner and struck Mr. Woollerman’s car but did not stop until some distance down the road. Fortunately neither occupant of the car was injured and Mr. Woollerman started off to interview the driver of the other ear but .just as he got up to it it started off. He was able to secure the number however. Defendant stopped her car between Foxton and Levin and obtained his assistance of a lorry driver and who drove her buck to Foxton. Defendant said that she had received liquor in Foxton. Had care been exercised the accident could have been avoided, as the left hand wheels of Mr. Wloollerman’s car were three feet off the metalled road, on the grass, which left defendant 18 feet of metal road. Mr Bergin said that defendant had been hurrying home on the night in question and the ear had no brakes. The corner was a bad one. Defendant was fined £5 with costs £5 13s Od and her driver’s license was suspended for three months.