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Woman fined
for causing
race accident
BRISBANE: A woman cycling of
ficial was yesterday found guilty in
the Brisbane District Court of danger
ous driving in an accident in 1982 in
which Commonwealth Games cyclist
Mr Gary Hammond was injured.
Mrs Janice Reid, 43, of the Sydney
suburb of Rockdale, was fined $ 1,000
and disqualified from driving for five
years.
She had pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
Mr Hammond, 23, a computer pro
grammer, of Melbourne, who won a
silver medal at the Commonwealth
Games, can no longer compete in
races.
He told the court he could work
only four hours a day because he
suffered headaches and sight prob
lems caused by an eye retina being
torn in the accident.
He had had numerous operations
in Brisbane and Melbourne and was
having a further operation on his knee
in a few weeks to correct a problem.
Judge McLoughlin told Mrs Reid
he would have sent her to jail if it were
not for the fact that she had suffered
injuries in the accident which de
barred her from ever being gainfully
employed and that she was now cut
off from the sport to which she had
devoted a great deal of free scrvice in
20 years as an official.
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