CAR CRASH SEQUEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 11

CAR CRASH SEQUEL

BUS FIRM SUED FOR DAMAGES ACCIDENT ON SOUTH ROAD An inspection of (be scene of lb bus-car smash on the Papakura-Drur Road on October (» last year, no 1 (be subject of a claim for damage in the Supreme Court, was made b (lie jury before the defence was coi tinned today. The car owner, Tan Herbert Nei Keith, sued W. J. Wheeler and Son bus proprietors, for £4Ol damages a a result of a collision with one r defendant’s buses, the car going ove an embankment. Mr. Gould appeared for the plainti and Mr. Northcroft represented tli defendant. , For the defence, Mr. Northe.ro contended that, it Was a suicidal actio for a car driver to attempt to pa? a bus at the spot where the accidei occurred, and he maintained that 1; adopting this course the motorist we guilty of such negligence as to di entitle him from recovering damage ! The bus driver, W. M. Foster, state | that he heard, faintly, a horn sounde< j and then noticed a car coming i j pass on the right rear corner of tT j bus. He applied the brakes, but. ; j that moment the car struck the bu j veered off to the right, then struc the bus again half-way along tl running-board. In his opinion the bi was well on the left of the road. A lorry driver, Henry Harlick. wi was a passenger in the bus, staff that the stretch of road where tl accident occurred was dangerous which to pass. He declared that ju as the car was going to hit the bi the man sitting with the driver tor bold of the wheel, the car swervii before it actually struck. ; “There was a Jook of terror on h< | face, like a woman jumping over j cliff.” said,-Frederick Blandford, a hi . passenger, in describing the worm i controlling the wheel of (lie car. i After counsel had addressed (1 jury, and bis Honour had summed u ; the jury retired at 12.20 p.m, (Proceeding.)