WAIKANAE ACCIDENT
WIDOW AWARDED DAMAGES Special damages amounting to £54 8s 3d and £75 general damages were awarded ,by Mr. Justice Quilliam. in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, to Mrs. Charlotte Ella Carter, a widow, of Wellington, against Joseph Geoffrey Long, a Wellington detective, whose car collided with the car in which Mrs. Carter was a passenger on a one-car bridge at Waikanae on January 1. The claim was for £250 general damages'and £93 3s 9d special damages. Mr. T. P. Cleary appeared for thej plaintiff, and Mr. J. Meltzer for the de-1 fendant. ' j Mr. Meltzer, in his final address,) submitted that it was the duty of al driver, even on a one-car bridge, to! keep as far as practicable to the lefthand side of the'road, and that had the plaintiff's driver done so he would have been able to avoid the defendant. His Honour, giving judgment, said the driver of the plaintiff's car had a right to assume that the other car would not attempt to cross the bridge. The defendant knew the locality, and must have had a perfectly good view of the bridge. The plaintiff's driver had nothing to indicate what would happen, and the Court was satisfied that he had had no opportunity of avoiding the accident. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 25
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