Wet Sand: Driver's Responsibility
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THE responsibility for carrying a load of wet sand, which was said
to have dropped on to the highway, lay with the driver, said the chairman of Stourport magistrates, last week. Thomas Henry Eden, haulier, 32 St. Annes Road, Worcester, pleaded not • guilty to allowing :wet sand to fall from his vehicle on to the road.
Mr. W. R. Everton, manager of a sand quarry at Wilden, said that on more than one occasion he had warned Eden about wet sand dropping on the road and about overloading. Witness admitted, however, that Eden had complained to him about the sand
Defendant denied that his vehicle had been overloaded. He said that on the day in question he had waited an hour at the quarry for the sand to dry a little, and when he found that it was being deposited on the road he stopped for another 20 minutes.
For the defendant, Mr. J. C. Sellars stated that the onus as to the fitness of the sand rested with the owners of the pit. He submitted that his client had taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the road would not be contaminated.
Eden was fined 12.