Nottingham Evening Post 5 Nov 1932: Dangerous driving
DANGEROUS DRIVING CHARGEAt the Cambridge Divisional Court to-day Kenneth Taylor Thomson, an under-graduate at St. John’s College, and captain of the University Golf Club, whose home is at Roundhay, Leeds, was summoned for driving a motor car in a manner dangerous to the public, and also without due care and attention at Trumpington on October 15th. He pleaded not guilty.
The case was a sequel to an accident in which a Mr. Peters, a cyclist, was involved and later died.
George Mansfield, a builder’s labourer, said that while he was going to work his attention was attracted by a motor-car, which shot from one side of the road to the crown. The car did that twice, and “got on the wobble.” There were four men in the car. He was no judge of speed, but by the pace the car was going it should have been on a cinder dirt track, and not on the road.
Mr. Levy, defending, suggested that there were three cars on the road that morning, and Mansfield said he only saw two. It was the first car that caused the accident to Mr. Peters, but he was unable to swear that it was driven by Thomson. Mansfield said that he was once in an accident, and was knocked off his bicycle.
Joseph Wilson, a roadman, said he saw a car come up behind Peters. He saw it hit Peters, and there was plenty of room for the car to have passed on the other side.
Replying to Mr. Levy, Wilson said he had been knocked down twice by motor-cars and Mr. Levy remarked that all the witnesses in the case appeared to have been involved in motor accidents.