RIGHT OF WAY.
QUESTION FOR HORSE DRIVERS. SECTION OF MOTOR ACT. An interesting and seemingly littleknown section of the new Motor Vehicles Act was given a prominent place in submission in a civil claim in the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch this week, when the owner of a horsedrawn delivery van claimed damages from the owner of a motor-car, the van and the car having collided. A special section of the new traffic regulations had been designed for horse drawn traffic at intersections, it was stated in evidence, the effect of which was to make the driver of a horse-drawn vehicle liable to give way on an intersection to a vehicle coming from any other direction—not necessarily on the right—if there seemed j the possibility of a collision. I An impression existed in the minds of many horse-drivers, it was stated, that they had a special right-of-way privilege on interssctiona.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 2 August 1937, Page 2
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149RIGHT OF WAY. Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 2 August 1937, Page 2
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