CARELESS DRIVING

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 8

CARELESS DRIVING

OPUNAKE DRIVER FINED Having been involved in a collision on the main road near Bell Block on August 10, Jack Coffey, Opunake, had his license cancelled for a month and was fined £5 with costs £3 when he appeared in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. The charge was driving without due care and attention. The circumstances were explained by Campbell Rigg, Uruti, farmer, into whose car Coffey crashed at about 9 p.m. when about a quarter of a mile on the New Plymouth side of the Bell Block store. Rigg was driving towards New Plymouth and Coffey was proceeding to Waitara. Rigg was well over to the left side of the roadway and Coffey's car struck and damaged the righthand side of his car. Then it somersaulted and finished up on its hood, considerably damaged. Constable E. G. Hight said Coffey was quite sober. He explained that he thought he was on his correct side of the road, but the position of the cars and the marks on the road showed otherwise. The car was a borrowed one and he was taking some friends to a farewell at Waitara. Other Prosecutions. For driving a car without a license Eric D. Booth, who pleaded guilty by letter, was fined 10s (costs 10s). James Lewis, who did not appear and was stated to be about to rejoin the mercantile marine, was fined £1 (costs 10s) for being found in possession of liquor near a dance hall in Liardet Street, New Plymouth, on the night of August 31.