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Wrong connection summons fails

19th November 1971
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• A company prosecuted by the police for using a vehicle with a defective lighting system, following an accident which occurred in broad daylight, pleaded not guilty before Newark magistrates last week.

Pearson's (Armthorpe) Ltd, Doncaster, was charged with using a Seddon articulated lorry with defective rear lighting, direction indicators and stop lights.

Police evidence was that the lorry in question was involved in an accident on June 7. It was turning into a lay-by when a private car — the driver of which had had a heart attack — collided with the rear offside of the semi-trailer.

When a police vehicle examiner inspected the lorry, the rear off-side lights were badly damaged but those on the near-side were in good condition but not in working order.

The company had admitted that the electrical connections between the tractor and

tridler had been incorrectly plugged in by the driver before the accident.

Mr T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, defending, sUbmitted that it was not disputed that the trailer was in good order and nothing wrong with its lights, all that had occurred was the driver made a wrong connection. The company had been charged with failing to maintain the vehicle but the evidence showed it to be in excellent condition and there should not be a verdict of guilty. In any event it was broad daylight at the time and the driver would have realized his error and remedied it the moment he switched on his lights. In addition the summonses had been made out wrongly as the company was charged with using a defective lorry when the allegations concerned a trailer.

The magistrates granted "an absolute discharge" on all three summonses.

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