DRIVING SECTION FLAILED IN COURT
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 3. “There are some drivers, who get their certificates from inspectors apparently on their best driving days, but who do not always maintain that standard of driving.” said Mr. Justice Cornish when summing up to the jury in the Supreme Court today in a motor culh sion case.
He said that some motorists were not fit to drive “In fact," he added, “you would not trust them with a wheelbarrow.”
The judge also .said that there were some drivers who had no road sense and others who had no read manners. Some drove too fast and others at times toe slow.
In 25 years o? motoring he had learned something of the kind of drivers met on the road. “I am of the opinion," he added, “that we are not going to have n slackening of these serious accidents till motorists begin to realise that they have got a duty to remember. There will front time ,to time be people on the roads who are far from perfect drivers."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 6
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