KILLED BREADWINNER
A FIVE-YEARS’ BAN “By your reckless driving you have killed the breadwinner of the family, and a widow an<s child are left.** Mr. Justice Sankey made this comment in sentencing at the Worcester Assizes Thomas Stanley Twigg, aged 20, a chemist’s assistant, to three months In the second division for the manslaughter of Alfred Lewis, who was killed in a motor-cycle collision. It was alleged that Twigg rode round a bend at over 53 miles an hour, so fast that he could not keep on his proper side of the road, and crashed into Lewis’s combination. “What you were doing, my boy,” added the judge, “was riding selfishly on a high-speed motor-cycle which could go 70 miles an hour, and not caring a bit for other people on the road. “I must prevent you from riding again for a long time. I cancel your present licence and disqualify you from driving any motor-car or cycle for five years.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 13
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