DAZZLING LIGHTS.
RESPONSIBILITY OF DRIVERS. COMMENT BY A JUDGE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The responsibility of drivers when they met dazzling headlights on roads wa9 touched on by Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court this morning in his charge to the Grand Jury, when referring to charges against car drivers. “The man was returning from the races in a motor vehicle, accompanied by his mother and two friends on a perfectly straight road, and ran down and killed a man on a bicycle,” said Mr Justice Nortlicroft. “He subsequently made a statement that he was blinded by the lights of an oncoming vehicle, and the Crown’s case is that it was negligent of him to carry on while so blinded. There is some controversy among motorists on the subject of dazzling lights. Some certainly do carry on when dazzled by lights and hope that nothing happens before tlio lights pass, but it is for this jury to consider what they should do.” A true bill of driving negligently was returned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 244, 27 July 1937, Page 6
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173DAZZLING LIGHTS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 244, 27 July 1937, Page 6
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