FAILURE TO STOP
AFTER MOTOR ACCIDENT. MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR SIX MONTHS. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “It is possibly unfortunate for you that there are a number of cases in which irresponsible young men drive too fast at night, and after they have an accident go on without stopping to see what harm they have done. The law requires that that should be stopped where possible by punishing offenders,” said Mr Justice Reed, in the Supreme Court, when sentencing Maurice Ernest Redmond, a salesman, aged 24, to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour for failing to stop after an accident. The prisoner’s driving licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for twelve months. The prisoner was the driver of a car which went on the wrong side of the road between Tawa Flat and Porirua and. forced an oncoming car into the fence. His counsel said prisoner went on at the suggestion of a passenger, who was in peril because of false statements he had made to the police.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 8
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