Liable to Heavy Penalty.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 4

Liable to Heavy Penalty.

“It is as well for you to know and for other people to know as well that, where a vehicle is involved in a collision, the driver must stop and ascertain if any person has been injured." said Mr.R. C. Abernethy. S.M., to a defendant in the Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill. “If there has been anyone injured the driver must render all practicable assistance and he must report the matter to the nearest police station. There is a very heavy penalty, one of five years’ imprisonment or a fine of £5OO, for failing to report an accident involving injury,” added the Magistrate. Horse’s Leap into River. Startled by a shunting engine near the (railway signal-box not far from the Cobden bridge, a horse burst the traces of the light waggon it was pulling and leaped fully 40 feet into the Grey River recently.' The animal secured a foothold about 100 yards lower down, but was unable to clamber over the jagged rocks, and remained in and half out of the water for some time. Men in a rowing boat persuaded the horse to swim to the opposite bank and, although the current was running about six knots, a landing was made on the Cobden side of the river. The incident was watched by many hundreds of Greymouth citizens.