FAILURE TO GIVE WAY

Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1947, Page 4

FAILURE TO GIVE WAY

PEDESTRIAN Cp.OSSJNG BREAGH ? Failur-e-tq give way tq qhildren who were attempting to'cross the road on an authorised pedestrian crossing resulted' the qppeqrance in the Magistrate's Court/ Levin, "of George Henver Roderick,- cabinet maker, 6f Wellington. He was conyicted qnd fined £2 10s, ' Traffic Inspector M. Kehoe 'stated in evidence that he was standing by the Levin Post Ofhce when he saw a car' approaching from the soutfi. It made no attempt to ease up thqugh there were "three children aiready six feet out from the curb. Alccident at Intersection A sequel to an accident in which : an eldqrly man was knocked down at' the intersection of Oxford and ; Queen Streets' was the appearance : o,f John Nichol Sams, dehtist, Otaki, who was charged with failihg to. give way to a pedestrian on a crossing. Sergeant W. Grainger stated that at 5.45 p.m. on, June 24 defendant was driving a vehicle alohg Oxford Street in a northerly directipn. , He had stated that when approaching the corner he liad dipped his lights to an onpoming vehicle, which had glaring headlights, when he suddenly saw a pedestrian crossing the road. He had applied his brakes, but the left front side of his car had struck the pedestrian, who sustained head injuries. Sergeant Grainger added' that he himself had b,een in the viqinity shortly before the qccident, and had nqticed'a car passing. He hadj commented on how difhcult i.t was to pipk up the markings on thei road. Driving eonditions were bqd, I said Sergeant Grainger, and it had been raining previously. There were no street lights and it was difScult to see the road markings' owing to a, sheen on the road surface. Defendant had stopped with-1 in 13 feet. Under the circumstances he would impose only a nominal fine1 of 10s, said, Mr. A. M. Goulding, • S.M., when giving judgment. Court costs amounted to 10s.