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HEAVY FINES ON MOTOR DRIVER
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933.
two or three days until another rickahs was provided.
thore Worship will let me say would have been no reason for these charges.
No Previous Conviction. I understand there is no pre-
Causes of Accident, Addressing the Court, Mr. Evans said: Thoro are two explanations which I should like to put before vlous conviction against him in the your Worship as regards this ac- Colony for dangerous driving or cident, but before I do so, I would any other kind of driving, though like to mention the activities of there was a conviction against him Hotel. I am particularly asking the defendant on the day. In ques- for parking outside the Penk
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FREIGHT AND
EYES AFFECTED BY FLOODLIGHT Plending guilty through Mr. D. B. Evans to charges of dan-
Hola employed by the General that in assessing any penalty, your gerous driving, failing to stop Electric Co. and the Empire Fair Worship will take into considera- and falling to report an accident, Mr. H. P. Bailey, of the Generali had started on the day previous tion those explanations and also Electric Company of China, Ltd., to the accident. They were ex-not suspend his driving licence. was fined a total of $350 by MF hibiting an extremely powerful understand he uses this car very Schofield at the Central Magis-flood light which had a candle- extensively for business purposes. power of 760,000 to 1,000,000, Dp.as his calling being that of an of the Colony to the fondant was in charge of this the electrical engineer takes him from tracy yesterday afternoon.
On the charge of dangerous previous night and was on duty at one end driving. Mr. Evars explained that the Fair from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. He other at a moment's notice. In Mr. Bailey had been in charge in
was at work the next morning at addition to that in the fact that he the Company's flood-light exhibit 9 a.m. and went again at 7 p.m. on lives in the Repulse Bay Hotel and of conveyance. I ask your Worship at the Empire Fair, which hind at the evening of the accident, ro his car is a very convenient form candle power of 750,000 to 1,000,- maining there until 9.30 p.m. 000, and his eyes had become During the time he was there, to give indulgence in view of thego Mr. Scholleld: 'Is it not the affected by attending to the light he had occasion to stop from be explanations.
Mr. Schofield complimented Mrs.hind the light to the Vincent, who had rendered as satisfy himself that each of the usual practice to use deep tinted
red glasses for such purposea? bulbs
functioning
Mr. Evans: Not in that parti- LONDON SERVICE sistance to Mrs. Landau, the vic-nine
correctly. He therefore exposed tim of the accident.
used for acetylene welding. The charges arose out of an ac- himself to the full glare of this cular case. Those glasses are only
did that cident in Queen's Road, East of enormous beam. He Murray Road, when Mrs. Landau, several times and once before he the wife of Mr. Adolphe Landau, left at 9.30 p.m. when he stepped the proprietor of Jimmy's Kitchen, in front of it at a very short die was seriously injured, when de-tance and noticed that each of the fendant's car came into collision bulbs were functioning correctly. with the risksha in which she was He then left and took the 90 travelling on the night of May 21. ferry and got in his car at the Trame-Inspector C. F. Alexander Praya when he arrived at Hong- prosecuted, and Mr. T. H. King, kong, and proceeded at what he
General of thought was a normal pace. Deputy Inspector
In the first place, the defendant Police, was also present. Mr. C.
It was ox- D'Almada watched in the interests was extremely tired. of Mrs. Landau, while Mr. D. B.tremely hot, and he did, in fact, and it feel extremely sleepy, Evans was for the defence.
Bubmission ia
of
· part
my
WAR feeling At the conclusion, Mr. Schofield
that this sleepy remarked that he was not includ-induced largely by the glare that ing sentences of imprisonment as he felt sure the explanation offer he had subjected his eyes to. It ed was a good one. He fined the is a well-known fact that gazing at a bright light for any length of the major defendant $200
time does induce sleepiness and charge; $100 for failing to stop,
that is emphasised by the fact and $60 for failing to report an
that hynotists always use bright | accident.
lights to induce sleepiness.
on
Plens of Guilty,
I may mention that after duty At the commencement of the that night, he had not had any case Mir. Evans sald-"I am going dinner at all and was on his way to plead guilty on all three charges back to Repulse Bay to get some and shall have something to say gandwiches before turning In. The on the charge of dangerous driv-effect of driving in that state, ing."
Inspector Alexander, outlining the case, said:
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Mr. Scholfield: I know from my own experience of searchlights we glassos on. I should think it LIVERPOOL SERVICE
MACHAON 30 Juno have always had to keep red tinted would be advisible for any one dealing with such powerful lights to use strong tinted red glasses in the future. Knowing himself to be in such a condition, it might have been much wiser for him to
have hired a car.
Mr. Evans: I should have men tioned it before, but there is in fact an explanation for that. The defendant thought it was not right for him to leave his car parked on the Praya all through the night.
He was under the impression that Mr. Schofield: It is true that the car had to be removed.
one leaves a car on the when Praya all night, one is apt to find it removed when one returns for other natural or it, either by
Certainly it is not advis able to leave it all night. I take it there is no suggestion that the do- fendant had consumed alcohol be- fore the accident.
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Mr. Schofield: What is the evidence that he had knowledge?
No Intoxicants. Mr. T. H. King: There therefore, is no defence, and it is ovidence that he was under the in- for that reason that I advised my fluence of drink. There is no client to plead guilty. But it is a evidence that he had not had a Soon after 10 p.m. on May 25, very possible and probable ex-drink, but he had driven from the last, motor car No. 2928 was planation as to how this accident scone of the accident to Repulse Bay without any further mishap. driven towards Queen's Road up cecurred.
We do not alloge intoxication; we Murray Road, it is alleged at a
Fogged and Misty Eyes. speed between 30 and 40 m.p.h.
Continuing, Counsel said:-The have no evidence on that point.. The ear
in turning cast along other explanation is this: There But it is also not alleged that he is Queen's Road East did not keep to are two conditions of eye strain or a teetotaler.
'Mr. Schofield: It certainly the left but took a wide sweep and eye-affection due to glare. The nearly collided with lamp first is known. as adaptation from strikes me that one of these ex- standard. It travelled along light to dark and as your Worship planations is a possible one. Put- Queen's Road East for 50 or 60 knows, the converse is from dark ting aafde the question of his being yards and collided with public to light. There is a period during under the influence of liquor, ricksha No. 509. The rickaha was which you cannot focus. correctly I cannot understand how defen- on its proper side of the road, and and no amount of concentration dant could have driven on without the front left side of the car
can remove that. It is entirely taking notice of the accident.
Mr. King: 1 cannot offer a de- collided with the right rear end of natural of course. During that
clear the ricksha. A Europonn lady in period one's eye-sight is fogged finite explanation. It is the ricksha was thrown to the and misty and
the period of though that the defendant was, not ground and rather seriously in adaptation in cases of extreme unaware that he had hit some-
coolie also jured. The
was glare is forty-five minutes. That is thing. I must ask your Worship thrown to the ground. The car the maximum period; the minimum to take a serious view of his going on without giving any information did not stop but went back to Re-period might be about 10 minutes. pulse Bay Hotel where it was put There is a second-condition to the Police. in the garage.
which is popularly called the That may be very Later that night I went to the "eclipsed aye.' hotel and wont to defendant's often an extremely serious matter, room. He admitted driving the as not only is there the adaptation car and said "A girl walked into period, but there is actually an in- the car." The number of the car was jury to the retinn of the eye. That obtained through some men of the injury may be extremely tempor. South Wales Borderers and also ary, semi-permanent or permanent. the ricksha puller, who got it from It is a curious fact that if you look passer-by. When this car at something while in that con-
Mr. Evans: Defendant under collided with the ricksha, a lady, dition, you don't see the very thing Mrs. Vincent, was in bed in you are looking at but do see other stood from Insp. Alexander that caused by ex- a lady had been hit, and not know- Queen's Road, and she heard the things. That is crash and got up and went to the treme glare. There is no gaining how he hit her, he thought it the best poselble thing he assistance of the injured lady who saying the fact that the defendant was was taken to the Dockyard, where did not see what he hit. I am sug- could say.
Mr. Schofield: I should like to a stretcher was obtained and later gesting this as a possible explana- she was taken to the Government tion of why he did not see the ac- compliment Mrs. Vincent in help- Civil Hospital after having been cident. This explanation can be ing the Injured lady; I think she
by calling BTI attonded to by a Naval surgeon. verified
eye did very well. With regard to the She was discharged from hospital specialist, should your Worship so damage to the ricksha and the in- on June 12, and is still under desire. Both the explanations are jury to the coolle, I will make an medical attention at her house. entirely consistent with the fact order serving both.
Mr. Schofield: Is it known de- that defendant drove to Repulse finitely on which part of the road Bay and proceeded to go to bed. the ricksha was running?
He tells me that the impact with Inspector Alexander: On the the ricksha was not such a serious proper side on the left hand side. one as to lead him to believe that Was there much damage done to anything acrious had happened. the ricksha?—It was not badly And though he now realises he damaged only to the extent of shout have stopped, he failed to About $10. Tho coollo was do so. Had ho any idea of the scratched, but was not seriously nature or extent of the damage and your Injured. He had to wait for about injury caused, I am sure
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Mr. King: The statement that he made to Inspector Alexander when he said, "I was driving the car, the girl walked into the car."
Mr. Schofield: That may not hé a reference to the accident.
Mr. King: It could only be a reference to that night.
Mr. Schofield thon directed that $10 be paid to the owner of the ricksha for damages and $2 to the coolle for loss of wages.
"I am not including the sentence of imprisonment as I feel sure the explanation was a good one", sqid Mr. Schofield, who continued that he would not make any order garding costs, remarking tha could be settled elsewhere.
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