SEQUEL TO FATALITY
LORRY DRIVER FINED DEFECTIVE FOOT-BRAKE From Our Own Correspondent MORRINSVILLE, Friday. In the Morrinsville Magistrate’s Court a motor-lorry driver, Conrad Henry Lewis, was fined £1 and costs on a charge of driving a motor-lorry with a defective footbrake. The case was the sequel to a collision between defendant’s lorry and a cycle ridden by a youth, Sidney Pryor, which occurred in Morrinsville about two months ago. Pryor was killed. Constable Heeps said measurements taken showed that it took Lewis 219 ft to pull his lorry up after the impact. At a speed of 25 miles an hour the vehicle could not be pulled up by the hand brake inside 117 ft. The regulations stipulated 50ft. In imposing the fine, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. said the importance of the proceedings was that the footbrake. which was the most used method of stopping a motor vehicle, was not reasonably effective.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 1
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