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Coach TV risk charge dismissed

27th December 1968
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Luton magistrates last week diSmissed charges against a coach firm and one of its drivers of using in a coach a television set which might distract other drivers. Seamarks Brothers, of Luton, Beds, and Mr. Albert Reading pleaded not guilty.

Mrs. E. Havers, defending, said: "If the court takes this as a distraction, then Parliament had better start providing laws against road-side advertisements and girls in mini skirts."

Inspector H. Murray, prosecuting, stated that a police sergeant in a parked police patrol car had a clear view of the TV screen through the back window of the coach as it passed.

Mr. Carl Muller, secretary of the company, said: "I have driven behind these coaches while the television was on, and have never been distracted."

Mr. Reading, of Thame Road, Ayles

bury, Bucks, said: "Some drivers might be distracted by the television, but so they might be by a girl in a mini skirt."