Read the full judgment text of HCA 001686/1972 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 February 1979.
1. On the 1st of December, 1970, a boy of six years old was knocked down by an Army Land-Rover driven by the first defendant in Waterloo Road which was divided by an iron railing at the centre into two carriage-ways for traffic. Each carriage-way could accommodate three lanes of motor traffic. The north carriage-way catered for motor traffic going in easterly direction, and the south, westerly direction. The scene of the accident occurred on the south carriage-way of the road directly in front o