MOTORISTS

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 6

MOTORISTS

REMARKS BY CHIEF JUSTICE. 1 ’ • I (Per Press Association.) NELSON, May 1. i Tn the course of a remark concerln-1 ing motorists in general, during his summing up n.n a claim for damages, I at the Supreme Court, to-day the Chief: ’Justice, Sir M. Myers, said that it did not follow that if a man drove a motor) car he wa 9 a. man of wealth. The ownership of a car nowadays was not an indication of the wealth of the owner. “No body of motorists,” later remarked His Honor, “had a monopoly of thJe> road. Thank heaven they > have not,” he added. “I do not , suppoise that motorists as a whole 7 , are | negligent. They are further reJ marked His Honor. “The majority of -motorists that I have seen are not J negligent, but not "all are as careful as they. should be. Every motorist must drive with reasonable carte. The motorists must use ordinary ca.ro, and have due regard to thje l safety of the ‘ public, whether they are drivers of motor! vehicles,, pedestrians, or dmvers 5 of vehicles other than motors. Gimil- ’ j arly, the pedestrian must, be careful, | and he nuusit not go and throw hiimsclt ’ I under a motor car, as it werie, and 1 tho<n turn around a,nd say to the driv k.cs: “I am going to hold you liable ’ [ for damagc s because you have injured me.” “The answer to the pedestrian is “that yod did not take ordinary care 5 and arte the author of your own in- ‘ jury-” j i.—V , J. - 1