NEGLIGENT DRIVING
TOO MANY PEOPLE IN SEAT [BY TET.KGIUriT —OWN COmtESrON'nKNT] PALMERSTON NORTH, Monday Whether it constituted negligent driving to have four persons in the front seat of a car was a point Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., was asked to decide in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court to-day. Roy Louis Orchard, a clerk, was the defendant. On a recent Sunday he, as the driver of a threcseater car, was involved in a collision with another car at an intersection. To get the other three persons into the seat of defendant's car the third had to sit on the knee of the second. The police contended that tho third person must necessarily have blocked the view of the driver to tho left. Defendant admitted that his view through tho side curtain was blocked, but not his vision through tho windscreen. He would not need a view through the side-curtain until right into an intersection.
Tho magistrate thought that four in the front scat must interfere with the driver, either by obstructing his view or interfering with his control of tho car. Defendant was fined £2.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14
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