The Bee was to Blame.
Charged with reckless driving while in a state of .intoxication, a lorry driver appearing in a North Auckland Ala gist-rate’s Court successfully maintained that the charge should have been “reckless driving when stung by a bee.” He claimed that be bad felt an agonising sting in the back of bis neck, andi bad put his head down and unconsciously pressed on the accelerator. AA'lien he looked up he saw a car approaching head on, and swung to the wrong side of the road, pulling up just after hei had glanced off the car’s mudguard. As the other motorist involved was in court to give evidence that he had taken the sting, out of the lorry driver’s neck, the charge was dismissed by the magistrate.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 173, 24 April 1939, Page 3
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129The Bee was to Blame. Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 173, 24 April 1939, Page 3
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