SERIOUS ACCIDENT
SERVICE-CAR DRIVER FINED VICTIM LOST LEG As the result of am accident in which Oswald Gallagher, an Auckland Power Board employee, received such injuries that a leg had to be amputated, Gordon Samuel Clark, a service car driver, was fined £5 and costs £3 15s at tho Police Court yesterday on a charge of dangerous driving. “The evidence of the driver himself goes to show that he did not take the care he should have taken.” commented Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., imposing the fine. Witnesses stated that the man Gallagher, who was still- unable to appear in court, had been working on the right-hand side of the Great South Road, between the Harp of Erin and the Penrose railway bridge, on January 11. A motor-lorry had been passing a parked car when defendant’s car had come right over from behind the lorry on tho wrong side of the road, striking Gallagher and carrying him along for some distance. 'Mr. Rudd, for Clark, explained that the truck had pulled out to pass the stationary vehicle, its driver giving no signal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 16
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182SERIOUS ACCIDENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 16
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