ACCIDENT REPORTED TO POLICE

Southland Times, Issue 24823, 15 August 1942, Page 4

ACCIDENT REPORTED TO POLICE

MAN CHARGED AT DUNEDIN (Special) DUNEDIN, August 14. As the result of a motor accident involving injury to a cyclist, which occurred at Invercargill last night, the driver of the car, Leonard Joseph Langsted Morgan, company manager, aged 24, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court in Dunedin today on a charge of having failed to stop after an accident and give such assistance as was possible. , Sergeant Conway said the accused had reported at noon today to the police at Dunedin. The cyclist was seriously injured and in the circumstances the police asked that the accused be remanded to appear at Invercargill on August 21. , Mr J. B. Thomson, who represented Morgan, asked that the accused should in the first instance be remanded to appear at Dunedin so that the necessity for having to go to Invercargill before the police were ready, to proceed with the case would be obviated. The accused was remanded to appear at Dunedin on Monday, bail being allowed in his own recognisance of £lOO and one surety of a like amount. An application for the suppression of the name was refused. On Thursday evening Douglas Tomlins, a boy 14 years of age, was admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from broken legs and arms. He had been knocked down by a motor-car while riding a bicycle. The motorist failed to stop after the> accident. The condition of the boy last evening was reported to be satisfactory.