EXCESSIVE MOTOR LOADS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1930, Page 7

EXCESSIVE MOTOR LOADS

RESPONSIBILITY OF OWNERS. LAW REGARDING TRAFFIC DOMES By Telegraph.—Press Association. Te Awamutu, Last Niglit. Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Court to-day issued a warning against the owners of commercial vehicles seeking to evade responsibility in the event of prosecution for excessive loading by placing the onus on the drivers. The magistrate, said the court would make it so hot 'for them that they would get nobody to accept work as drivers, He indicated that the maximum penalties would be imposed in all future cases brought before him. In another case concerning a collision at a town street intersection the driver failed to keep to his proper, side of the traffic domes. The magistrate said that although the regulation gave the local authority power to exercise discretion in placing traffic guides it was clear that the intention was that they should divide the road so as to give each driver a fair or reasonable share of it. If the guides were not so placed failure to keep to the proper side of them was merely a technical breach and of little actual consequence.