Conductor Exonerated by Magistrates
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A NOTTINGHAM bus conductor, ." who was summoned for failing to take reasonable precautions for the safety of passengers after an accident in which a boy of 51 years was killed, bad the case against him dismissed by Nottingham County Magistrates, last week.
He was Arnar Singh, an Indian, of Claypole Road, who was described by his English driver as having the reputation of being the most polite and careful conductor employed by Barton Transport, Ltd., Chilwell.
Prosecuting, Mr. F. Pearce said the entrance to the bus was in the centre. It had a sliding door, which had been left open because it was a warm day. The bus passed a request stop at which the boy had intended to alight. Just after the bus stop the vehicle slowed to a crawl to turn a sharp corner and the boy alighted and fell under the bus. receiving injuries from which he died.
At the time this happened, the con• ductor was at the front of the bus with his back to the entrance. The prosecution alleged that with children on the bus the conductor should have exercised greater care and should not have allowed the door to be open.
Mr. D. Cowley, defending, said it was all very well to say that the door should have been closed, but there was. no such regulation. He asked whether the duties of a parent were placed on a conductor, and submitted there was some lack of parental control in allowing a small boy to travel alone.
EXHAUST FILTERS FOR EDINBURGH?
SUGGESTION that the corpora tiori's medical officer should consult the transport manager on the question of fitting exhaust filters to the oil engines of the municipal buses was approved at last week's meeting of Edinburgh Health Committee.
air. J. Mackail made this suggestion after the medical officer, Dr. H. E. Seiler, had told the committee that 110 people hard died from lung cancer in the first six months of this year.
RIDES DOWN 20.8 PER CENT.
FROM 1948 to 1955. the number of I rides per head of the population in Hull fell from 346 to 274, or 20.8 per cent. In London, during the same period, the fall was from 525 to 446, or 15 per cent. This is staled in the annual report of the general manager of Hull Transport Department.
GENERAL 21d. MINIMUM?
A GENERAL minimum fare of 21d. I-1 was forecast by Cdr. S. I. Dyson, chairman of Sheffield Tiansport Committee. last week. "We Must face the fact that if the public require the type of services they are demanding they will have to pay for them,be said.