Motor Cyclist’s Mistake.

June 1929

Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 28, 1929

Motor Cyclist’s Mistake.

Frank OldfieId, stone mason, Conisboro’, was summoned at Pontefract on Saturday for having failed to stop when called upon by a constable while riding a motor cycle.

P.c. -Kirby said he was on duty in High Street, Ferrybridge, on June 9, and had stopped traffic on the main road to allow a bus to turn out of Pontefract Road, when the defendant, ignoring his signal, drove by the road end, and but for the alertness of the ‘bus driver there would have been a collision.

Defendant pleaded not guilty, and said he had had 28 years on that road as a cyclist and motor cyclist, and was an official of several cycling bodies, one of his duties being to instruct others in road behaviour. He claimed that the constable was controlling the traffic from the pavement, that there were cars approaching from the opposite direction, and people standing at the edge of the road, and that under the circumstances he was to be excused for having failed to observe the constable.

A witness bore out this statement, and the Bench dismissed the case.