COSTLY NEGLIGENCE
MOTORIST FINED £SO CYCLIST BADLY INJURED (From Our Oven Correspondent) TE AHOHA, Friday. A fine of £SO to be paid to the injured person and cancellation of driver's licence for 12 months was the penalty imposed by Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., on Gordon Albert Manning, for negligently driving an unlighted motorcar. He was also charged with failing to stop and assist when he collided with a motor-cyclist. Mr. Gilchrist, for defendant, stated that on the night in question, Manning was proceeding from Manawaru to Te Aroha when the lights failed. As it was a moonlight night he decided to take the risk and proceed to have the lights attended to. When he struck the motor-cycle he mistook the slight impact for an irregularity in the road.
Mr. McGregor, who represented the injured motor-cyclist, H. K. Anderson, said that his client was still in the Waikato Hospital as a result of the accident, and was likely to be there for some months yet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 16
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165COSTLY NEGLIGENCE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 696, 22 June 1929, Page 16
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