CARELESS MOTORING
CASUALTIES DEPLORED JURIES' POWER TO CONVICT [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Monday It was deplorable tho number of people who were injured through the careless handling of motor-cars, remarked Mr. Justice Reed, addressing the grand jury to-day. His experience, he said, 'was that in very few instances was it a case of inevitable accident. Almost invariably there was negligence on one side or the other, and sometimes on the part of both. The degree of care demanded from motorists, His Honor added, was determined really by the verdicts of common juries. If juries set a high standard of care by resolutely convicting when carelessness was proved, it might act as a deterrent to reckless drivers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21552, 25 July 1933, Page 8
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117CARELESS MOTORING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21552, 25 July 1933, Page 8
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