HOOTERS.
VIRTUES AND SHORTCOMINGS. . In a case heard at Devon Assizes', arising out of a collision between a calami a motor-cycle, in which the motorcyclist claimed . damages for personal injury,' the defendant said lie sounded his horn, but plaintiff said he did not hear it. The Judge, Mr Justice Rowlatt, thereupon remarked: "I hear a good; many of these cases, and I have come to the conclusion that hooters are very little good. I make a. point always of listening to hooters to see how' far I can hear them, whether there is an accident or not. When I. am in , a big car it is very seldom that I got much assistance from another person's hooter. The car seems to get dulled to the sound, or a wall, or a bank, stops it. A hooter may be a very good thing to give warning of approach *on a straight road if you see somebody who may not be looking, but I do not believe that the sound of a hooter goes round the corner." In the result his lordship awarded plaintiff £6OO damages with costs.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 30 October 1925, Page 4
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