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'Sidelights' charge against lorry driver dismissed

25th March 1966, Page 28
25th March 1966
Page 28
Page 28, 25th March 1966 — 'Sidelights' charge against lorry driver dismissed
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Keywords : Lorry, Wagons, Law / Crime

ACHARGE against a 25-year-old lorry driver that he drove without reasonable consideration for other road users, because he allegedly drove his lorry on sidelights on Ab on a foggy night in January, was dismissed by Shap, Westmorland, Magistrates last week. The driver, Alec McCance, had pleaded not guilty.

Stopped by a mobile police patrol and asked why he had been driving on sidelights only, the driver replied that he could see well enough without his headlights. In giving evidence, he claimed that conditions were not what he would describe as foggy, but there was some mist on the road.

On cross-examination the police driver, PC Morrison, agreed that he was not inconvenienced by the lorry, which he first saw approaching some 50 yards away.

For the defendant, Mr. R. C. W. Bennett said it was not sufficient to say that it was probable that someone would have been inconvenienced by the lorry; the prosecution, he maintained, had failed to prove that anybody had been inconvenienced.

Dismissing the case, the chairman, Mr. J. W. Millray, said: "We deprecate the practice among lorry drivers to use side lights, but we feel that there is a doubt here".

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