DIMMING HEADLIGHTS.
"MOST DANGEROUS PRACTICE." [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, June 20. "The dimming of headlights on at night is the most dangerous practice in the world," said Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court, when considering a case in which a motor-car collided with a tar-mixer on Beach road. It was stated that the car's lights were dimmed as another vehicle was approaching from the opposite direction, and the driver had not noticed the mixer on the roadside. "There need to be a by-law years ago forcing motorists to dim their headlights, and I had a good experience of the fallacy of it while I was at the Bar," his Honour added. "I defended a man who was charged with failing to dim his lights, and a week later he killed a woman through no other reason than dimming his lights. I then appeared for him on a charge of manslaughter." "As a car-owner, I object to dimming headlights," said Mr Rogerson, who appeared for the defendant." He added that there was now a by-law requiring lights to be focused correctly, and this had served to a certain extent to keep the main beam of the light on the ground.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19032, 21 June 1927, Page 10
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