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RECENT ACCIDENT.
DOCTOR TAKES ACTION AGAINST LORRY DRIVER.
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER
those bends well on his loft hand
Mra Davey gave corroborative. alde. Witness was familiar with evidence, remarking that it was these corners and know they were not till her husband's car was half not dangerous. As he approached way past lorry 508 that she saw the corner witness sounded his the second lorry. horn twice but did not reduce Mr. J. Smith of the Kowloon- speed....
Canton Railway, who arrived on A mishap on the Castle Peak
"I did not reduce speed," said the scene shortly afterwards, gave, Road, where a motor car, driven. by Dr. J. E. Dovey came into col Dr. Dovey, "because I heard no the position of lorry No. 503, 35 ision with a lorry, on the evening reply to my horn. I therefore being 20 yards round the bend. of August 26, had a sequel before swung round the corner at 27 Witness said that he thought Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon miles an hour. On turning the rounding a bend at 27 miles an Magistracy yesterday afternoon, corner I saw immediately in front hour was "Just on the border when a summons for negligent driv. of about 20 paces away motorina Yekobama Vancouvering was taken out against the
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lorry No. 503, on the same side of the road as myself, facing the same way and broken down."..
Prosecution Falls.
The driver of lorry No. 503, The lorry, continued witnesses was very heavily laden with baskets, gave evidence of his lorry having cargo was to have been transfer Thres mow were standing beside had a puncture, and said that the
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Inspector Marks replied that the fact that lorry No. 341 was revers ing round a bond was negligence, copoeially as no warning was given
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Almost simultaneously witnessed to the other lorry.
In reply to Dr. Dovay, witness was driving, was reversing in an saw lorry No. 841 alongaldo 509, Mar. 2 attempt to go alongside 603. Dr. Witness had just awung out to admitted that it was dangerous for Mar. 14 Mar. 28 Dovey was travelling towards Kow-pass 603. At the same time as the lorries to have been drawn up loon and collided with the rear witness saw the three mon they round a bend Witness claimed, Mar. 28 Apr. 6
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It was stated that 508 had posted n man to warn traffic of ila prof
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Dr. Dovey then went into the witness box. He said that he was roturning from Castle Peak at 6.4 p.m. on August 20 together with his wife, child and amah. At a point about half way between Castle Peak and Teun Wan there were
two half bends in the road.
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Asked what he meant by half bends, witness replied that a motorist approaching a halt bend, The defendant (to witness): as he had been, had a clear view of Why did you go at such a high the road round the corner if travel-speed? .
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Mr. J. S. Smith, of the Station Hotel, was fined $2 for driving a
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