Bus Obstruction Charge Fails
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nERBY magistrates last week
dismissed a case in which a bus driver, Peter Arnold Henchliffe, of Hanclyside Road, Derby, was charged with causing an obstruction with his vehicle in the market place, Derby. He pleaded not guilty.
• The summons was issued on the instructions of Col. H. Rawlings, Chief Constable of Derby, who told the magisi rates that he saw the bus parked near a bus stop with its front wheel 9 ft. from the pavement.
Cot. Rawlings said that when he told the diver he was causing an obstruction, he replied that when he arrived at the stop a car had been parked in front of him. Col. Rawlings admitted that other vehicles were parked along the road in the "no waiting" zone.
Asked by Mr. R.. J. H. Cleaver, defending, whether he accepted that the stop was an authorized stopping place for corporation buses, and that they were specifically excepted from the "no waiting " order, Col. Rawlings said he did not agree that buses were allowed to cause an obstruction on the highways " widy nilly."