DIMMING CAR LIGHTS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 6

DIMMING CAR LIGHTS

REGULATIONS NECESSARY. CORONER'S STRONG REMARKS. By Tetegiaph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. "I think the dimming of the car’s headlightß was a great factor in causing the accident,” said the coroner, Mr. F K. Hunt, S.M., in returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest concerning the death of the Rev. George Aldridge, pastor of West Street Church of Christ. Deceased was knocked down by a motor-ear in Dominion Road on October 12 and died later in the Auckland hospital. Mr. Northcroft said the driver could not appear as he had been seriously ill sinee the accident, but in a statement, to the police the driver said he dimmed his lights on account of the approach of two other cars. He swerved to avoid deceased, but could not effect a total clearance. Mr. Hunt said he found nothing to show that there was any negligence on the part of the driver. "The time has come,” he said, "when the authorities will have to do something in the matter of dimming headlights. I am quite sure that if deceased eould have seen a ray of light from the car the accident would not have occurred. The man would be alive to-day if the lights had not been dimmed.”