FINE IMPOSED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 6

FINE IMPOSED.

CHARGE AT BLENHEIM. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Jan. 19. Rex Ashby Rudkin, of Christchurch, a salesman, was fined £lO, plus £4 6s witnesses’ expenses, and ordered to produce his license for endorsement by Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when convicted of driving a car at a dangerous 6peed on a main highway near Blenheim.

Senior-Sergeant Smyth said tha.t the evidence available indicated that defendant travelled at an excessive speed in the course of a journey from Christchurch to Picton. He was reported speeding through Kaikoura and had a collision with a motor lorry before reaching Blenheim, but did not stop. Then lie allegedly picked up a horse on the bonnet of the car and carried _it over 100 yards, resulting in injuries necessitating its destruction. Even then he covered a matter of 25 miles in half an hour.

Explaining tho accident in a letter to tho Court, defendant, said that he was relying on “the courtesy of the road’’ and expecting the car descending the hill to give way to his car, which was .ascending. The Magistrate declined to take this into account, remarking that he had never heard a convincing explanation of the theory. It appeared a most serious case. Whether a car was going uphill or down it must be driven with reasonable care.