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Judge Suggests Mate for Mobile Crane
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THE driver of a mobile crane which was in collision with a Sheffield Corporation bus should have been accompanied by a mate at the time to direct traffic round the jib, Mr. Justice GlynJones said at Sheffield Assizes last week. He was giving judgment in a case in which the crane operators, Osborn Furness, Ltd., Sheffield. sought £789 I Is. 7d. damages from the corporation, and the corporation counter-claimed for £157 9s.
The judge said the bus driver should have seen the crane jib, despite the fact that no mate was employed to warn other traffic. He held that the bus driver was 75 per cent. to blame for the accident, whilst the crane driver was 25 per cent. to blame, and judgment was given on these lines.
Osborn Furness were awarded costs, hut were directed to pay £25 towards the corporation's costs.
ROAD PROGRESS EXHIBITION AN exhibition designed to illustrate the progress of road improvements in the County of London was opened at County Hall, London, on Wednesday, and will continue until March 26. The county's road programme involves about £40m. for 50 schemes already carried out, 28 others in progress, and 32 more scheduled for the next few years.