DIMMING OF HEADLIGHTS
CONDEMNED BY MR. .JUSTICE REED. (Per Press ! Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. •'The dimming of headlights on motorcars at night is the must dangerous practice in the world," said Mr. Justice Reed in (lie Supreme Court, when considering n ease in Which a motor ear collided with ;i. tar mixer on Beach road.
it was stilted the car lights were dimmed as another vehicle was approaching from the opposite- direction, and the driver had not noticed the mixer on the roadside.
"There used to be a by-law years ago forcing' motorists to dim their headlights, and I had a good experience of the fallacy bf it while'l was at the Bar," His Honor a'dded. "I defended a man who was charged with failing to dim his lights, and a week later he killed a woman through no other reason than dimming his lights. 1 then appeared for him on a charge of manslaughter.'' "As a car owner I object to dimming headlights,'" said Mr. Rogerson, who appeared for the defendant. He added there was now a by-law requiring lights to bo focussed correctly and this had served, to a certain extent to keep the main beam of the light on the ground.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 8
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