QUESTION FOR MAGISTRATE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 205, 31 August 1943, Page 2

QUESTION FOR MAGISTRATE

TRAFFIC JUNCTION AND RIGHT-HAND RULE The question of whether, in view of the definition of "intersection” in the Traffic Regulations, 1938, the righthand rule applied to a junction such as that where Plymouth Street joins Somme Parade, was raised in the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, recently, and was referred to by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in a judgment delivered yesterday. The case was one in which a motorist was charged with driving without due care and attention. “The old Motor Vehicles Regulations, 1924, defined an intersection as meaning ‘the crossing of a road by any other road, or by any railway or tramway at a level-crossing, and included the meeting of a road with any other road,’ ’’ the magistrate added. "That is to say, it included a junction. "The regulation of 1936 defined an intersection as follows: Intersection, in relation to two interesting or meeting roadways means that area embraced by the prolongation or connection of the lateral boundary lines of each roadway.’ “It will be seen,” the magistrate added, “that the rule still applies to a junction, since the definition refers to two meeting roadways. In this case, for the purpose of the definition, the lateral boundary lines of Plymouth Street are deemed to be prolonged across Somme Parade to the river bank. “That this is the correct view is shown by reference to the recent judgment of the Full Court in Hazeldon v. Andrews.”