DANGEROUS DRIVING
MOTORIST FINED HEAVY COSTS TO PAY From Our Own Correspondent WHANGAREI, Today. In the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr. G. N. Morris, S.M., Norman MeLeod was charged with driving a car at Dargaville in a manner dangerous to the public and with failing to stop after an accident. The owner of the car, T. Gough, said lie was returning from a football match at Dargaville and when passing the Dargaville racecourse another car travelling at 35 to 40 miles an hour passed him, tearing the tyre and tube off, also the axle-cap of his car. He knew accused and was certain he. McLeod, would have pulled up had he known he had struck the car. The evidence ,of several eye-wit-nesses went to show that Gough pulled well to his left and had defendant used reasonable care the accident would not have happened. McLeod said he was driving the car at 30 miles an hour and was absolutely ignorant of the fact that he had hit anything. The magistrate accept'd thi of the prosecution and fined defendant £2 on the charge of dangerous driving and £7 6s costs. The charge of failing to stop was dismissed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 787, 7 October 1929, Page 1
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