Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000958/2009 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 February 2010.
1. The Appellant appeals against his conviction in the Magistrates’ Court on a charge of careless driving. He was driving a medium goods vehicle with a trailer on which was loaded a working platform. As to the facts, the prosecution’s case was that he drove under a crane bridge, that there was insufficient clearance for him to do so and that the platform therefore collided with the bridge. There was evidence on which to find those facts proved beyond reasonable doubt. The Magistrate found them s