HEADLIGHT DIMMING.
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
“The dimming of headlights on motor ears at night is the most dangerous practice in the world,” said Justice Reed in the Aueklam Supreme Court on Tuesday when considering a case in yvhich a motor car collied with a tar-mixer on Beach road. ..■:*[ “It- was stated the ear’s lights were dimmed as another vehicle was j approaching from the opposite direction and the driver had not noticed the mixer on the roadside. “There used to be a by-law years ago forcing motorists to dim headlights, and 1 had a good experience of the fallacy of it while I was at the Bar,” His Honour added. “I defended a man who was charged with failing to dim his lights, and a week later he killed a woman through no other reason Ilian dimming his lights. 1 then appeared for him on a charge of manslaughter.” “As a car owner L object to dimming headlights.” said Mr. Rogerson, who appeared for defendant. He added there was now a by-law requiring lights to be focussed correctly and this had served to a oertaifi extent to keep the main beam of lights on the ground.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3656, 23 June 1927, Page 2
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196HEADLIGHT DIMMING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3656, 23 June 1927, Page 2
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