DUTY OF MOTORISTS
MUST AVOID ACCIDENT
FINAL 01 >PORTI XITY THE OBVIOUS IN THE ROAD “Suppose that a motorist is, in the vuglar term hogging the road,” stated Mr Justice Blair during the hearing of a motor collision ease in the Supreme Court at Palmerston. “It is the duty of the other motorist- approaching to avoid the result of the first driver's wrong-doing.” His Honour referred to the analogy of the classical ease in which a ’bus driver was held responsible for running over a donkey tethered in the middle of the road because although it should not have been there, he took no steps to avoid it. His Honour said it was a question of the last opportunity to avoid an accident.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3871, 31 October 1932, Page 6
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