ACTRESS’S MOTOR SMASH.

Shannon News, 5 September 1924, Page 1

ACTRESS’S MOTOR SMASH.

GWENDOIiINE FARRAR FINED. A collision between a motor -car driven by Miss Gwendoline Farrar, the: actress, and a taxi-cab containing a Wimpole Street specialist, when the latter and another person were in* jured, was described to a London magistrate recently. Miss Farrar was summoned for driving at a dangerous speed, and .pleaded: hot guilty. Mr Herbert Muskett,- for the prosecution, said that defendant drove her car down New Bond Street at 35 to 40 miles an hour, at 7.35 a.m. on May 2. As she approached Grafton Street the doctor’s taxi-cab appeared : round the corner travelling at two or three miles an hour. The doctor, who was inside, was thrown out, and seriously injured and was taken tso hospital. Miss- Farrar said she travelled at about. 2 5 miles an hour, and* the road was quite clear. She heard no hooter. She was fined £5 and costs and her .license suspended for three months. It was stated that there : would be an appeal against the judgment.