BLIND DRIVER PHENOMENON
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■U Harrogate Allan Nicholls, a tradesman, was summoned for driving without* license. Nicholls is blind, and has artifi- \ constable stated that when travelling nn the Leeds to Harrogate road be saw defendant at the wheel of a motor car, with another man by his side. _ The defence put forward was that in buvv traffic, as long as someone was beside him, Mr Nicholls “could steer a car te a quarter of an inch. The man was nothing more than a phenomenon. Ho had been blinded in Franco, and after three years at St. Duustan’s was as perfect a man with his afflictions a-s could bo found. Defendant could tell the time by his watch, and went about doing business in the eastern counties as one who possessed his sight. Nicholls told the court he knew every inch of the way from Leeds to Harrogate, and every article in his shop. He had on this occasion driven the car to test and prove his senses of tench, direction, hearing, and measurement, and there was no danger, because there was a driver by his side.
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Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 1
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189BLIND DRIVER PHENOMENON Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 1
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