HE CRASHED INTO BUS, HAD LICENCE SUSPENDED FORTNIGHT
FOR driving his car without due care and aiiemiim — • he col'.ided with ti-.:' reai oi a Rbad Services Ims jiaidved off the road — Jolm Joseph Lewis Strathern had his lieence suspended I for 14 days and was iiued £3 and costs £1 3s by Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., in Taupo Gourt. Sergeant X. G. Waters said tliat Strathern was driving his car liorthI ward along the Taupo-Wairakei highway at 8.30 a.m. on June 20 wlien the car erashed into the back of the hus, which was parked well off the road. Strathern told the police that ne was travelllng slowly at the time. tne fog was had, and he could see only 18ft. ahead. He did not see Ihe hus titi after the accident. Tlie car was badly damaged, despite the fact that (lefendaiit said he was travelLing stow- ! ]yStrathern said in reply to a question that lie had no( liing to say.
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Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 288, 15 August 1957, Page 1
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