FAILURE TO STOP
PEDESTRIAN CROSSING INCIDENT LORRY DRJVKU FIXED i """"" Possibly the first of its kind tobe heard in Whakatane,, a casa against a lorry driver, Hugh Hudson, for failing to pull up at a pedestrian crossing in the town of Whakatane on July 30. was heard before 3lr E, L. Walton, S.M., in the local eomrt JasE Tuesday. The Transport Officer who handled the ease for the Connty Inspector stated, that Inspector Carting when approaching the Strand, pulled up at a pedestrian crossing and. gave the usual stop signal, to allow a pedestrian to crass. The pedestrian had started to move across the road when defendant's vehicle overtook and passed over the crossing forcing the pedestrian to; retrGat. Mr Otley for the defence said that he had passed many stationary cars on the way into Whakatane and assumed that the inspector's \xtis another discharging passengers. He had not seen the pedestrian,, nerftlseir had he seen the stop signal. He hatl no notion that he was committing an offence. Fined 10s and costs 10s. „
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 17, 22 October 1943, Page 5
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174FAILURE TO STOP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 17, 22 October 1943, Page 5
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