"Dangerous" Mirrors Upset Jury
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EVEN-MAN jury and two solicitors It a York inquest last week and the driver's seat of an ice-cream van :mine a " blind spot" referred to by ironer, Mr. Innes N. Ware. After'the jury added a rider to its verdict the authorities should look into the on of such driving mirrors, so that ould be examined and put in proper verdict of " accidental death" was ed on a I7-year-old motor cyclist, d Neal, of Clifton, Yorks., who died local hospital after being involved accident with an ice-cream van ionth, driven by Mr. David King. ioliceman said that when he arrived c scene of the accident he examined Lb of the ice-cream van and found he driver's vision had been obscured blind spot caused by the door post cab and the driving mirror. Mr.
said that he and other drivers fed the mirror as a danger. The coroner told the jury that if, in the interests of safety, it wished to draw the attention of the public to the driving mirrors of ice-cream vans, he woUld accept a rider to that effect.
Modern Art to Zurich
AN exhibitiob called "British Paintine in the Sixties ", organized by the Contemporary Art Society of London. opened in Zurich this week.
All transportation of the exhibition was in the hands of Hernu. Peron and Stockwell Ltd., London. The paintings, worth many thousands of pounds, were carefully guarded in a pantechnicon that was routed Manchester-Ti I b ury-R o tte rda m Zurich,