ROAD TRAFFIC

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12419, 4 August 1938, Page 3

ROAD TRAFFIC

right-hand rule OF CARS ivtFKITiETATIOX jrUGE s Wellington. Aug. 4 that gives the right ot " Tlie vehicles approaching from the rft0 ,r S intersection <loes_ uoi rigH l a Li s ionP of vehicles in a ? ivc ! ”^- a re carrying heavy traffic ! “ m ' 0 m nf wav over other traffic lor ,i,cr, fL»e time." said Mr Justice ' lic .?i people think that so long u° m o is a procession uisto go » l f! r r %ve“ ’art Mod rale“twik’lhM his Honor. iJlc -> ininn u . £a i d ,,erson against whom the rule is 1 r«thm is not allowed to enter tue 0i nH until some motorist more imbued with consideration for other - tn let him acdoss. sto ffnev think the right-hand rule nni es no matter how far hack they lv have been in the procession V hen the motorist gave his signal wo : r f-e across, but'it does not. It apSp’ s to only the first one or two who av fairly be said to have been ,n e region of the intersection when he motorist desirous ot crossing 1,1 save his signal to cross. His Honor remarked also that toe motorist emerging from an intersecion against whom the right-hand rule' operated, was entitled to as!mme that another car approaching from the right and entitled to the bPuefit of the rule was travelling at .'reasonable speed and m accordluce with regulations. In other words he was entitled to judge the dupstion of the applicability against m of the right-hand rule on the footing that the driver in whose favour the rule operated was an ordinary prudent driver and not a road hog. „