CAR COLLISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 3

CAR COLLISION.

CN COUNTRY ROAD. i CLAIM OF £500 DAMAGES. "The real point at issue, I take it, is whether the driver of the motor car kept to his correct, or left-hand, side of the road, or whether he was further over to the right than wag warranted when passing the entrance from which the van was emerging," remarked the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, during the course of evidence before him and a jury in the Supreme Court to-day in a claim by Mrs. Matilda May East, of Papakura (Mr. Holmden), v. the National Trading Company of \*ew Zealand. Ltd. (Mr. Goldstine). for £2 2/ special and £">OO general damages. The claim arose out of a collision on the Hauraki Plains highway nrar Waitoa between a motor car driven by plaintiff's husband, in which plaintiff was a pa-sender, and a groccr's van driven by I*. W. Cou'ter. It was agreed that the car was passing along the road at the moment when the van was emerging from a gateway. Plaintiff and her husband testified that they were on the left-hand side of the road, while R. W. Coulter, driver of the van. said he stopped the van when it occupied 2ft of the road, and that the cause of the collision was the fact that Mr. East's ear was driven with his right-hand wheels to the right of the centre of the road instead of the car being wholly on the left-hand side of the road. The case is proceeding.