CAR DRIVER ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENCE MOTOR-CYCLIST’S DEATH (From Our Own Correspondent J HAMILTON, Monday. The inquest on the death of Leslie Granville Spencer, a furniture salesman, was commenced to-day. Spencer died on December 20 of injuries received in a collision between his motorcycle and a car driven by Arthur Raymond Gifford, at the Five Crossroads, Claudelands, on the evening of December 19. Erastus William Leeder, a schoolboy, said he saw Gifford's car travelling fast along Peach Grove Road, on the wrong side. The cyclist tried to avoid the car, but hit it on the front mudguard. A verdict was returned that death was due to a fracture of the skull, received in a collision between a motorcycle ridden by the deceased and a motor-car driven by Leslie Gifford. The coroner found, moreover, that at the time Gifford was driving his car at a speed and in a manner dangerous to the public. Gifford was then charged that on December 19, 1927, at Hamilton, he did by negligently driving a motor-car on Peach Grove Road cause the death of Leslie Granville Spencer. A remand was asked for until Wednesday. and was granted, bail being allowed in one surety o£ £IOO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 12
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200CAR DRIVER ARRESTED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 12
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