PARKING ON HILL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1937, Page 12

PARKING ON HILL

THE NEW REGULATIONS

OMISSION OF PRECAUTION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day. In a reserved judgment today Mr. W R. McKean, S.M., referred to the omission from th* new, traffic regu : lations of a former provision concerning the parking of motor-cars. Joseph Howard was charged with driving a car on the road without care and attention. He left the car parked on an angle in Wel'esley Street while he visited the Post Office. .After -he had been away for some minutes the car ran backwards downhill to the footpath at the corner of Lome Street and broke a large plato glass window in a shop. At the hearing the police said that under the former regulations provision was made for such a case but under the new regulations no such provision was included. A similar prosecution had been successful in WelCounsel submitted that Howard had not offended against the existing regulations. The Magistrate in his judgment said that the former regulations contained a provision that a car if on a grade should be placed in such a position that if set in motion when not under control it would run into and remain against the kerb. ' When the new traffic regulations were enacted in December last the earlier regulations were revoked. For such a prosecution to succeed it must be established that the person charged was at the time in actual physical control of the vehicle and directing and regulating its movements.

"I think it regrettable," the Magistrate added, "that the provision relating to leaving a car on a slope has been omitted from the existing regulations. I am of opinion that the defendant cannot be convicted of the offence charged."

The information was dismissed,