MOTORIST FINED £20

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 11

MOTORIST FINED £2O

INTOXICATION CHARGE CRASHED INTO TELEPHONE POST 'From Our Own Correspondent . HAMILTON, Today. Remarking that these cases are too common and too serious to be treated leniently, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., fined Peter Gillies Hansen £2O and suspended his driver’s licence for 12 months in the Hamilton Police Court today. Hansen, who is aged 24, pleaded guilty to being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car on Boxing Day, following the Pirongia Races. According to evidence, Hansen rapidly overtook and grazed another car near Rukuhia when returning to Hamilton. Later he crashed into a telegraph post and overturned. Three occupants were pinned beneath the wreckage, one being admitted to hospital. An eye-witness said Hansen turned a corner at about 60 miles an hour on the wrong side of the road. Mr. N. Johnson, for accused, said his client was practically a teetotaller, but he had had three small beers that day which affected him. He asked for probation in view of accused’s occupation as a motor-driver. The'magistrate recalled that Hansen and another youth had converted 14 or 15 cars to their own use some years ago. Hansen was obviously reckless and lacked self-control.