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Passenger Liable to Obstruction Charge
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A PASSENGER riding in a vehicle 1-1 commits •an offence if he opens his door and obstructs someone on the footpath. This is the effect of a' judgment given last week in the Queen's Bench Division by the Lord Chief Justice in an appeal concerning a woman who had been convicted by Bradford City Magi-_ strates. She had opened the near-side door of a shooting brake and injured a, pedestrian.
Although the magistrates had fined her £3, the Bradford Recorder accepted a defence submission that Section 78 of the Highway Act, under which the prosecution had been brought, applied only to drivers, not passengers.
The Lord Chief Justice rejected this argument. The Act, he said, referred to "any person" who negligently hindered anybody on the highway, and this term covered passengers equally with drivers. Mr. Justice Hilbery and Mr. Justice Donovan agreed.
M. AND D. TO CUT NON-PAYING MILEAGE
DISAPPOINTED in the Budget, Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., are to press plans to cut out unremunerative services over about 1,143,000 route-miles this year, and next year rn'kr withdraw further non-paying facilities so that their mileage will be four-fifths of that operated in 1957.
A company spokesman has said that it had been made abundantly clear to the Government that operators could not continue to bear the burden of running poorly patronized services in rural areas.