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Condue tress A warded £1,066 Damages D AMAGES and agreed special
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damages totalling £1,066 Is. 6d. were awarded against Sheffield Corporation to Joan Ann Beach, a former conductress, at Sheffield Assizes last week.
Miss Beach had sued for injuries received when she fell from a bus as it turned into Pond Hill after leaving Pond Street bus station. She was a trainee conductress at the time, and was off work for 28 weeks.
Mr. Justice Glyn-Jones, giving judgment, said Miss Beach was collecting fares on the lower deck before thc bus left the station. At the corner she was a few feet from the doorway, and for some reason she lost her balance, stumbled and failed in her attempt to hold the rail. She fell from the bus.
The question was whether the driver had taken the corner too fast. He had the same duty to his conductress as to any other passenger.
The judge had the impression the speed was too fast. though it was the usual speed. The turn was awkward—there were differences in camber which would cause any bus to lurch. He advised the corporation to instruct drivers to take special care at the corner. Alternatively they should have the road surface altered.
LONDON BUSES DROP Elm. IN EIGHT WEEKS
TRAFFIC receipts from London Trans' port's road services in the first eight weeks of this year amounted to £7.79m., compared with £8.75m. in the corresponding period of 1958. London Transport's railway revenue rose from £3.62m. to £3.65m. Receipts from the British Transport Commission's provincial and Scottish buses dropped from £8m. to £7.9m.
British Railways' passenger receipts increased from £16.5m. to £16.6m.. but their freight revenue dropped from £54.2m. to £49.76m. Overall, the Commission's transport receipts declined from £99.65m. to £94.13m.
SPEEDING MOTORWAY TRAFFIC
ASpart of a scheme to improve the approaches to London from the London-Birmingham Motorway, Watford Way is to be widened for a distance of one mile to take twin 30-ft. carriageways. There will be four pedestrian subways, and the project will cost about £244,000.