TRAFFIC BREACHES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19901, 2 June 1936, Page 8

TRAFFIC BREACHES.

___.,___ SEQUEL 'I'O ACCIDENTS. INSUFFICIENT LIGHTS CHARGE. Pleading guilty to a charge of having no tail light on his lorry, Jack Gordon Kelly was fined 55 with costs 125 in the Hamilton Magistrate‘s Court by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., yesterday. Sergeant T. Kelly, who prosecuted. stated that defendant‘s lorry was pulled into the side of the Great South Road at dusk one evening last month without a tail—light and a motor-cyclist William Henry Taylor, crashed into the hack of it. The motor-cyclist was charged with not having a sufficiently-lighted motor cycle, Sergeant Kelly explaining that he had a bicycle light, worked by a generator, on the front of his motor—cycle. \\'hen he slowed down the light died and did not throw a beam of 901 i. as required by the regulations. Taylor was also fined 55 with costs 125. Learning to Ride. Two charges, one of dangerous driving and one of having no driving licence. were preferred against Colin Thomas Fitzgerald who pleaded guilty. Sergeant Kelly explained that de« fendant was riding a motor-cycle with u. piilion rider on the back, and he hit a car in the middle of the road in Lake Road. It transpired that he was just learning to drive and this was his first attempt. He had no licence and he was in poor circumstances. On the charge of dangerous driving he was convicted and ordered to pay the costs and on the other charge he fined 55 with costs 105, his licence to be endorsed until May 1937.