Read the full judgment text of CACC 000543/1982 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 July 1982.
1. I am always reluctant to interfere with a magistrate's discretion in the matter of sentence. In the present case the learned magistrate thought that this was a bad case of careless driving, and so it was. The Appellant knocked down an elderly man on a pedestrian crossing. He obviously did not have proper control of his vehicle, for he had produced brake marks of about 80 ft. in length and ended up with his vehicle facing almost in the opposite direction. The road was straight and there was no