Jury Disagree Over • Disqualified Driver
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A RETRIAL was ordered at West
morland Quarter Sessions at Kendal last week after the jury failed to agree in a case which arose from the escape of a Silloth haulage contractor who was trapped in the cab of his lorry for 40 minutes near Nether Bridge. Kendal.
When a load of 10 tons of steel girders crushed the cab of the vehicle, William Lewis Pattinson, The Crofts, Silloth. was pinned with his head between the spokes of the steering wheel. This led to him facing a charge of driving while disqualified.
Pattinson pleaded Not Guilty and contended that another driver, Ernest Arthir Andrews, who had been employed by him because of his (Pattinson's) disqualification, was driving when the load shifted. but jumped out on Pattinson's instructions, and that Pattinson then slid into the driving seat to apply the brake and was trapped in that position.
Both Pattinson and Andrews admitted making statements to the police on the morning of the accident. that Pattinson was the driver.
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