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20 Charges After Fatal Trailer Accident

2nd October 1959, Page 62
2nd October 1959
Page 62
Page 62, 2nd October 1959 — 20 Charges After Fatal Trailer Accident
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HEA RING of 20 summonses in connection with a trailer from which a yacht fell, crushing a man in a Hull street some weeks ago, has been adjourned until October 19. The man died when the 8-ton yacht toppled from its bogie when being towed from a garage in Bessie Street, Hull, to a launching site in Hull docks.

Cornelius Donald Parish, Cornelius Parish, Ltd., and Amos Smith, Ltd., engineers and ship repairers, are each summoned for using a trailer with no brakes and of excessive width, also unsuitable for carrying a yacht, with insufficient springs and with tyres which did not conform with the Construction and Use regulations.

Cornelius Parish, Ltd., are also summoned for employing an unlicensed driver, and Peter Albert Burnitt Roberts is further charged with using a tractor without a driving licence.

STAGE 1 OF RING SERVICE HE first stage of a plan to run a I round-city bus service on the Leeds Ring Road has received the approval of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. They granted consent to Leeds Corporation last week to run buses on the 12I-mile Whitkirk-Rodley section of the ring road.