Dangerous Load : B.R.S. Fined
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H0WDEN magistrates last week fined the Lincoln City group of British Road Services £10 for permitting the use of a lorry with a dangerous
load. The driver, George Anthony Husband, Neward Road,. North Highcombe, Lincoln, was granted an absolute diScharge on payment of 10s. costs.
Mr. A. S. Scorer .pleaded not guilty on behalf of B.R.S. and Husband. Last October, the side of a workmen's bus was ripped off by the hooks of tractors 'carried on the lorry. .
Insp. G. E. Howes Said that the lorry was carrying four tractor's. The overhang on the near side was I ft. and on the off side 1 ft. 11 in., the overall width .being 10"ft. 5 in. The outermost points of the load on the off side were the hooks of the tractors. These were not marked distinctively to warn other drivers. The bus was travelling in the opposite direction to the lorry.
Husband said that the bus approached at 45 m.p.h. and had ample room to pass. Its front wheels were on or over the white line.
Mr. Scorer submitted that the width of the lorry and its load should not be the basis of a conviction by law. The width might have been an inconvenience, but it was not a danger. The cause of the accident was the method of driving bv one of the drivers.
308 BLACK SPOTS REMEDIED
OUT of 336 black spots notified to highway authorities by the Royal _ Automobile Club in 1954, 308 were remedied. In nine years, thousands of black spots have been eliminated on the initiative of the R.A.C., who renew their appeal to road users, whether members or not, to report black spots to them.
Dangerous road surfaces were concerned in 109 of the 308 instances in which action has been taken or is promised, and lack of or inadequate signposting in 108. Twenty-one complaints were made of lack of white lines or cat's-eye studs and 16 of obscured visibility.
HAULIER ACCUSES RIVALS
WHEN Kenneth Wellburn Firth. Savile Road, Dewsbury, was fined a total of £22 and ordered to pay £10 10s. costs by Dewsbury magistrates, last week, on charges of exceeding the 25-mile limit and failing to cause records to be kept, he alleged that two of his competitors, who were jealous of his business, had laid information against him.
Firth asked for 21 other offences to be taken into consideration.
OBITUARY
XTIE regret to record the death of MR. VT EDWARD DUNN
Mr. Dunn became the general manager and later a director of Favourite Direct Services, Ltd., Bishop' Auckland. He was 651