£4,000 FOR CLIPPIE HURT IN BUS
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D AMAGES of £4,000 have been awarded by Lord Leechman in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, to a Glasgow Corporation bus conductress 'seriously injured when a bus braked suddenly in Argyle Street on December 12 1963.
Mrs. Jessie McKinna, Canonby Street, Glasgow, sued the Corporation for £6,000, blaming the driver for the accident. She was thrown forward suddenly, said the judge, and was seriously and permanently injured. She suffered damage to her vision, balance, and ability to get about.
• Lord Leechman said an old woman stepped off the kerb and was struck by the front nearside wing of the bus. The driver could and should have taken action sooner to avoid her and if he had done so there would probably have been no such accident as befell Mrs. McKinna.
Not only had the Corporation failed to justify its driver's action in violently braking and swerving his bus, but it had been proved the emergency with which the driver was ultimately faced was largely, if not entirely, one of his own making.
Mrs. McKinna was awarded £1,500 for pain and suffering and £2,500 for loss of wages. Service Ends: Rochester and Marshall Ltd., Great
• Whittingham, Northumberland, has decided to close its bus service between Hexham and Hexhamshire because it is uneconomic. Three or four of its other services are also threatened.