NOT TO DRIVE AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 1

NOT TO DRIVE AGAIN

WOMAN MOTORIST DISQUALIFIED CAUSED MAN’S DEATH Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. In the Supreme Court at Christchurch, Mrs. Isabella Mabel Stanley, for driving a car negligently and causing the death of Stephen James Johnston, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within a year. Her present licence to drive was suspended and she was disqualified from holding a driver's licence for the whole term of her life. The judge said that there were painful features in the case, but it was the court’s duty to consider all the circumstances and the interest of the public. iT is Honour was satisfied, from the reports, that Mrs. Stanley was a woman of unblemished reputation. The jury’s strong recommendation to mercy justified him in taking the course that commended itself to his own sense of fitness and right. It was beyond question that Mrs. Stanley should not be in a position to imperil property, limbs, and lives on the highway.

MOTORIST FINED £IOO PASSENGER KILLED NO LICENCE ?OR FIVE YEARS Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. John Boyd Clark, for driving negli- ■ gently and causing the death of j Maureen Mitchell, was fined £IOO and I disqualified from driving for five years. ; Mr. Justice Adams said he sympa- ; thised with the jury’s recommendation. : He interpreted it as an indication ; that, in the jury’s opinion, a term of i imprisonment might not fairly be in;- , posed. At the same time, no person j guilty of negligence that caused the death of another person should be given unlimited opportunities for further driving. His Honour added: “It is to be hoped that the warning will have some effect on persons who are negligent and forget their duty to take care in driving. In this court at least, no lenient view will bo taken in such cases %s far as licences are concerned.” j