Read the full judgment text of CACC 000713/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 22 October 1969.
1. The appellant pleaded guilty to careless driving. The circumstances were that at five past midnight on a Sunday morning the appellant was driving along Pokfulam Road. There is a discrepancy in the record as to the direction in which he was travelling but I am told that he was in fact travelling towards Aberdeen. He was smoking a cigarette. He dropped the cigarette and, instead of stopping in order to recover it, he took his eyes off the road and lost control of his vehicle. The car mounted th