TURNS TO RIGHT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 8

TURNS TO RIGHT

Cars from Standing Start MAGISTRATE’S RULING Giving his decision in a case in the Police Court last week, Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., said that a motorist turning to the right from what is known as “a standing start,” was not. by law, required to give the usual signal of extending the right “f wish to make it clear,” said the magistrate in his written judgment, which was delivered yesterday, “that this decision merely interprets the regulation as it stands and holds that the provision in the regulation does not cover the case of u car moving off from a stationary position. “There is, however, by common law and also by statute, an obligation, on the part of every motorist to use due care, and if a motorist from a stationary position should turn his car to the right without giving due warning either by the holding out of his hand or in some other manner, that he is about to turn to the right, he may find himself liable in a civil action or in a prosecution under the statute, or both, for negligent driving. “In my opinion it would be for the protection of the public if the regulation were amended so as to make it compulsory for such a driver to so signal.”