MOTOR-CAR COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 8

MOTOR-CAR COLLISION.

CASE TAKEN TO APPEAL COURT.

[BY telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON. Friday. At the Appeal Court this afternoon argument was Begun in the case Colraore Williams versus Weir, an appeal from a judgment of Mr. Justice Cooper. Respondent, while driving a car on the Aratapu-Dargaville Road with passengers, was overtaken and passed by appellant, who was driving another car. Before the latter car had completely passed the former they collided. The following car was passing very close to the other car, and appellant alleges that the collision I was caused through respondent altering Hie course of his car slightly. In the Lower Court the judge found that the I substantial cause of the accident was the negligence of appellant—Williams—in driving past the other car at such speed, and so close that an accident was extremely probable, and that the fact that respondent had lost his presence of mind., and probably unconsciously turned the front wheels of his car before the other car | had completely passed 'was not, in the ciri cumstances, to be treated as contributory j negligence. The case is not finished. i