GLARING HEADLIGHTS
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Important Point In Accident Case
■" ( By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The Crown has decided ®ot to pursue further its case against Frank Royland Coe, a farmer, of Amberley, who was on trial this week on a charge of driving .a motor truck negligently on the Main North Road on May 8,.thereby causing the deatih of a cyclist, Albert Hadler. Coe was tried twice before Supreme Court juries, but 1 each time the jury disagreed. The principal point the juries were asked to deterwine, and wliieh Mr. Justice Northcroft held to be pf national importance, was whether Coe should have stopped ihis truck when the glaring lights of the oncoming vehicle appeared likely to dazzle hiin.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 170, 5 August 1937, Page 3
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