Paired tyres should both be good: Lord Widgery
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• Magistrates sitting at Grantham were wrong in dismissing summonses alleging that a Bury St Edmunds haulage contractor used an articulated lorry with two defective tyres, it was recently held in the High Court.
The contractor. Mr Roland Christopher Adams, of The Common, Stanton. Bury St. Edmunds, appeared before the magistrates on March 4.
Lord Widgery (Lord Chief Justice) presiding in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court, said that there was nothing in the regulations to support the magistrates' decision that no offence had been committed because each defective tyre was one of a pair and the other member of each pair was a perfectly good tyre.
Although pairs of wheels could, in certain regulations concerning the construction of motor vehicles, be treated as one, that was not the case concerning tyres, said Lord Widgery.
Mr Justice Browne and Mr Justice Bridge agreed that the case should go back to the magistrates for them to convict Mr Adams.
The police were awarded the costs of their appeal.