Liability For Road Accidents
Sir,—Your leader on Saturday under this heading was indeed salutary. Surely the existing law penalise# the entire motoring fraternity enough without making it 100 per cent, responsible for what is often the complete irresponsibility of the victims of accidents. To charge a motorist with “not keeping a proper look-out” when a virtually invisible figure in our ill-lighted streets hurls itself in front of his car is simply a convenient way of pinning the blame for an accident on to a driver whose only contribution to it was the geographical situation of his car at the time. This seems to me an Erewhonian type of reasoning. Surely it is possible to exonerate completely a motorist in certain given circumstances, and so make it clear to the public that they must to a certain extent be responsible for their own follies, and not expect to be indemnified for the consequences of them. —Yours, etc., I.S.T. April 16, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 8
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