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Some enlightening facts

2nd June 2005, Page 35
2nd June 2005
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Many provisions of the 1930 Act did not become law until the beginning of 1931; 4-iour issue dated 20 January 1930 Commercial Motor published "Some Enlightening Facts which should be Noted by Operators and Drivers of Commercial Vehicles: • Drivers had five days to produce their licence at a police station after being stopped.

• In accidents where damage was caused to a person, vehicle or animal the driver was required to give his name and address, the name and address of the vehicle owner and the identification marks of the vehicle to anybody having "reasonable grounds to require them". If this was not possible the accident had to be reported to a police station within 24 hours,

• A new offence of "careless driving" was created which made it an offence to drive "without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road". This was in addition to the existing offence of "dangerous driving".

' The law on driving under the influence of alcohol/ drugs was tightened. It was no longer necessary to prove the driver was drunk before he or she could be convicted. All that had to depraved was that the driver was "under the influence of drink

or a drug to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the vehicle".

• Uninvited passengers faced fines of £5 for hanging on to a moving vehicle with the purpose of "being drawn or carried".

• Parking vehicles in a dangerous position, such as the bend of a road or the wrong side of a dark road, became an offence.

• Under the old law the police or highway authority could only order a vehicle to be taken to a weighbridge if one was within half a mile. The new law abolished the half-mile rule, but allowed operators whose vehicles proved to be carrying a legal load to claim compensation if the weighbridge was more than a mile away.

The act also introduced a system of categorising vehicles, noting that "heavy motor cars and cars are vehicles which are constructed to carry a load".

On 25 November 1930 CM noted: "The act enables the Minister of Transport to authorise the use on roads of special types of motor vehicle or trailer which are constructed for special purposes or for tests or trials." Permanent fixtures on vehicles such as cranes or welding plant would not be considered a bad, but were "deemed part of the vehicle".

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