NEGLIGENT DRIVERS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20491, 6 May 1938, Page 2

NEGLIGENT DRIVERS

ATTITUDE OF JURIES MR JI'STTCE CALLAN’S VIEWS (Special to Times ) AUCKLAND. Friday Referring to the remarks of the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Myers, at Hamilton, concerning the number of i rases of negligent driving causing \ death, Mr S. R. Mason, in a case in the Supreme Court yesterday, considered six cases were not many when the size of the district and number of • vehicles were considered. Mr Justice Callan said even If Mr : Mason were right that six cases for trial were not an alarming number for to large and populous a district, ft was natural for everybody to feel that six human beings killed as a result of motor collisions In approximately three months was a figure everybody would like to see reduced If It was possible. But a Jury would certainly be starting out on the wrong basis If they said to themselves: “This is the sort of thing that should be stamped out,” and then proceeded to look for somebody to be punished. The case was that !n which Albert Robert Dougall MiUen (21), mechanic, was found guilty of negligent driving causing the death of John Donovan 51), stoker. He was remanded for sentence.