NEGLIGENT DRIVING
MOTORISTS’ DUTY TO THE PUBLIC SIR ALEXANDER HERDMAN’S COMMENTS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, October 29. Special attention was devoted by Sir Alexander Herdman In his charge to the Grand Jury in the Supreme Court to-day to three charges of negligent driving so as to cause death. “Frequently this Court has to deal with cases of this description,”, said His Honour. “When a man is in charge of a motor-car he has a duty to perform to the publie. He must have regard to the safety of other people who are using motor-cars as well as himself. “No session passes but we have charges against persons of causing Injury or death to others by negligent driving. New conditions have arisen, and they produce a regular crop of offences. Sometimes fatalities are the result of carelessness of the victims themselves; more often they are the consequence of negligent driving. When a man is in charge of a motor-car he is bound to keep a proper look out, to drive at a reasonable speed, to keep on the correct side of the road, and generally to see that the safety of the public is guarded.” Of the three cases which the jury had to consider there was one which was not very serious; another which was serious, and a third which was very grave indeed. The last one resulted in the death of two persons, and there was. an element of drunkenness in it.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 30, 30 October 1929, Page 10
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243NEGLIGENT DRIVING Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 30, 30 October 1929, Page 10
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