Mobile Shop Steps An Invitation
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THE fitting of two entrance steps to a mobile shop is. in law, an invitation to "take a ride," an inquest jury at Carlton, Notts, was told last week by Mr. C. A. Mack, Nottingham District Coroner. The operators thus had a strong duty to uphold if children were invited to get aboard, he declared, The inquest was on five-year-old Philip Roebuck, who fell under a mobile shop, which had been converted from a bus. An assistant described how he saw one older boy jump on to the steps while the vehicle was being reversed, but did not do anything about it, He did not sec the five-year-old at all, he added.
The owners, A. and C. R. Roth, Ltd., provision merchants of Woodborough Road, Nottingham, learned that their precautions were not satisfactory when the jury returned an open verdict. The coroner had indicated that this would signify some failure on the operators' behalf.