DUTY OF MOTORISTS
EXERCISE OF REASONABLE CARE. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, July 25. When summing up in a case in the Supreme Court to-day, the Chief Justice, the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, said that charges of negligence causing death were matters of very great importance, because they involved the safety of the public and the use of the King's highway, and juries which had to try such cases were the guardians of the road. There was no magic in the meaning of the word negligence; it meant no more than want of reasonable care. It was the duty of every person who drove a motor vehicle to exercise reasonable care so that no member of the public should be injured. If there was an absence of that reasonable care, and if by reason of that a person was killed or injured, the driver of the motor vehicle who had been negligent, and whose negligence brought about death or bodily injury, had committed an offence under the statute.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 8
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168DUTY OF MOTORISTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 8
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