Support for the rule that pedestrians on concrete roads at night should face oncoming traffic was accorded by tho legal aud by-laws committee of the Auckland City Council (reports an exchange). There was a division ot opinion concerning liability if a pedestrian was run over while walking on what is usually termed the wrong side of the road, but the chairman ot the committee, Mr. A. .1. Entrican, said that there was no rule of the road for pedestrians as there was tor other traffic. Other members of the committee considered that the fact that the pedestrian was on the “wrong side” would be taken into account by a jury in a question of damages
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 4
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115Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 4
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