THE OFF-SIDE RULE.
VEHICLES IN SAME STREET. STATEMENT BY A JUDGE. [from our own correspondent.] HAMILTON. Tuesday. An important, ruling regarding the motor traffic off-side rule was given by Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday afternoon, when summing up at the close of a civil claim for damages arising out of a motor collision at Cambridge. "I have held, and will continue to hold," said His Honor, "that the off-side rule does not apply to vehicles approaching each other, so long as it is clear that they are in the same street. They are simply approaching each other in the same street.
"If the off-side rule were to apply in such circumstances it would mean that all traffic proceeding down on its proper side would have to give way to a vehicle which desired to turn in the road. The off-side rule does not apply to traffic turning in the street in front of other traffic.'-'
His Honor added that the driver in such a case should use reasonable care and turn only when the street was clear of oncoming traffic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20819, 11 March 1931, Page 13
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