MOTOR ACCIDENTS
DEGREE OF NEGLIGENCE. OBSERVATIONS BY JUDGE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, July 24. “It is deplorable the number of people who are injured through 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 an 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 was determined really by the verdict of common juries. If juries seta high standard of care by resolutely convicting when carelessness was proved, it might act as a deterrent to the reckless driver.
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Southland Times, Issue 22076, 25 July 1933, Page 8
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116MOTOR ACCIDENTS Southland Times, Issue 22076, 25 July 1933, Page 8
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