Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000983/2005 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 February 2006.
1. This is an appeal against a conviction for careless driving. The issue was who moved into the middle lane on a three-lane road. The magistrate resolved that issue against the appellant and he relied heavily upon the fact that a sketch made by a police officer, showing the positions of the vehicles after the accident, had the appellant’s vehicle straddling the line between the second and the third lane which, of course, supported what PW1, the taxi-driver, had said about him coming from that