Coach TV risk charge dismissed
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• Luton magistrates last week diSmissed charges against a coach firm and one of its drivers of using in a coach a television set which might distract other drivers. Seamarks Brothers, of Luton, Beds, and Mr. Albert Reading pleaded not guilty.
Mrs. E. Havers, defending, said: "If the court takes this as a distraction, then Parliament had better start providing laws against road-side advertisements and girls in mini skirts."
Inspector H. Murray, prosecuting, stated that a police sergeant in a parked police patrol car had a clear view of the TV screen through the back window of the coach as it passed.
Mr. Carl Muller, secretary of the company, said: "I have driven behind these coaches while the television was on, and have never been distracted."
Mr. Reading, of Thame Road, Ayles
bury, Bucks, said: "Some drivers might be distracted by the television, but so they might be by a girl in a mini skirt."