FESTIVE SEASON

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 6

FESTIVE SEASON

YOUNG MAN IN COURT NEGLIGENT DRIVING CASE “The fact that it was the festive season may have had something to do with it,” said Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert in the Police Court, Hamilton, to-day, when three charges were preferred against William George Clough, aged 26, a glazier, of Frankton. Messrs J. R. Fow and G. K. Sinclair, J’s.P., were on the bench.

Pleading guilty to a charge of negligent driving in Princess Street last night, Clough was convicted and fined £3. He was ordered to pay medical expenses of £1 Is. No evidence was offered on a charge of driving without due care and attention in Victoria Street, and a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a truck was dismissed, the report of the doctor stating that Clough was not intoxicated. Senior-Sergeant Lambert said Clough was arrested at 6.25 p.m. yesterday after colliding with the rear Of a vehicle in Victoria Street. It was found that the steering gear of Clough’s truck was damaged and he admitted having struck a tree in Princess Street. It was found by the police that the defendant had come out of Harwood Street at a high speed, mounted the footpath in Princess Street, and struck a tree. The truck was rendered unsafe to rlrivft.