RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 7

RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

MOTORISTS’ EESPONSIBILITY. LOEB.Y AND BUS DRIVERS’ NEGLIGENCE. (Special to Dailx Times.) AUCKLAND, December 10. “It is a funny thing, but wg never get these men twice," said Mr F. K Hunt, S.M.. in imposing a fine of £3 and costs upon Charles Cook (Mr L. P. Leary) at the Police Court for failing to stop his motor lorry before comine in contact with the railway line at New Lynn Mr Hunt remarked that it was a curious thing that, once a driver was fined for a breach of the railway by-laws, he did not offend again. “Now that' this defendant has been fined £5 and costs, the next time he comes to a railway crossing ho will stop and think of the £3.—(Laughter.) Albert Charles Lamb, the driver of a motor bus, was then charged with a similar offence. In entering a plea of guilty for Lamb, Mr J. J. Sullivan said that defendant legitimately believed that the train had stopped, otherwise he would not have crossed the line Lamb was the sole supof his mother, and as the costs were particularly heavy, Mr Sullivan requested the magistrate merely to enter a conviction and order defendant to pay the costs Mr Hunt agreed with counsel, and ordered Lamb to pay the costs, which amounted to £9 11s.