HIGHWAY WHITE LINES
LEGAL POSITION Now that white lines are being painted on highways with the object of defining the two lines of traffic, the legal position as regards motorists who deliberately leave their own side of the road will be bound to arise in this country sooner or later. In London recently the Lord Chief Justice decided that a while line indicating the centre of the road is "not a traffic sign of device." It is therefore, according to British law, not an offence if a motorist’s wheels cross the white line. However, if on a blind corner or curve in the road a motorist deliberately leaves the correct side of the road, he may be guilty of an offence, and the fact that he crossed the white lines might be accepted as evidence of the dangerous manner of his driving. However, according to the authority quoted, the white line is not a sacred object, whose violation by that very fact is a crime.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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165HIGHWAY WHITE LINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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