BUS ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 11

BUS ACCIDENT

INJURY TO GIRL

£1500 DAMAGES AWARDED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

General damages of £1500 were awarded today to the ten-year-old girl, Elizabeth Mary Trumper,' who was severely injured when a Hawarden School bus crashed into a tree on May 10. (The cause of the accident, the jury held; was the negligence of the driver.

The plaintiff sued through her father, Angus Llewellyn Trumper, farm manager, of Hawarden, the general damages claim being £3000. The defendants were Alexander Hugh Millar^ driver of the Hawarden Consolidated School bus at the time of the accident, and Ecroyds Garage and Transport Company, of Hawarden. There was no real distinction between negligence and error of judgment, said Mr. Justice Northcroft in summing up. Negligence indeed might be described as a degree of error of judgment. "One always wonders why in §iese cases it is necessary to bring the evidence of a team of doctors," said, his Honour. "It might well be considered' that sufficient evidence could have been placed before you by the doctor who performed the operation and was in charge of 7 the case, As it was, a team of three doctors was called."