MOTORIST CHARGED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 967, 9 May 1930, Page 10

MOTORIST CHARGED

RECKLESS DRIVING ALLEGED INJURIES TO WOMEN From Our Own Correspondent HUNTLY, Today. Reginald Cecil Waite Taylor, an insurance inspector of Auckland, was charged on four counts of negligent and reckless driving on January 24, and with doing bodily injury to Mrs. Margaret Francis Armstrong and her daughter Greta. It will be remembered that Airs. Armstrong and her two daughters were run down by a car driven by Taylor at the Kimihia Cemetery gates on this date, Mrs. Armstrong getting a fractured leg and her daughter a fractured thigh and skull and superficial wounds and bruises, while Jane Armstrong was badly affected by chock. Sergeant Cowan prosecuted and Mr. C. B. Gallagher (Auckland) appeared for the defendant. Considerable evidence was given t>y Messrs. Frederick Harris and his son, Arthur Thomas Ralph, a nearby resident, and Edward George Bridget's, Percy R. Bridgers, and Air. F. Bridgers (who followed the defendant’s car from Ohinewai to the scene of the accident), and Dr. Hugh Stewart Douglas, who attended the injured at the Hunt.ly Hospital prior to their removal to the Waikato Hospital. The case is proceeding and will last all day, as a number of witnesses have yet to be called. Eric M. Morillean, a staff surveyor of the Lands and Survey Department, put in a plan of the scene of the accident, and James Armstrong also gave evidence. Airs. Francis Ann Armstrong, using a walking-stick. and led into the court by Constable • Leslie, was a pathetic figure, frail and wan, and her evidence was taken while she was seated. Mrs. Armstrong stated that owing to the motor traffic on the tar-sealed road she and her daughters hugged the cemetery wall for safety on their way to visit her married daughter’s place. “I just saw a light flash on to us and I knew no more,” said witness, who added that the night was fairly dark. Jean Armstrong, aged 11. also gave evidence, and the court adjourned for lunch.