New Road Offences
The Highway Act 1835 specified as offences for which the driver of a carriage on the public highway might be punished by a fine, in addition to any civil action that might be brought against him:
- Riding upon the cart, or upon any horse drawing it, and not having some other person to guide it, unless there be some person driving it.
- Negligence causing damage to person or goods being conveyed on the highway
- Quitting his cart, or leaving control of the horses, or leaving the cart so as to be an obstruction on the highway.
- Not having the owner's name painted up.
- Refusing to give the same.
- Driving animals or a 'carriage of any description' on the footway.
- Not keeping on the left or near side of the road, when meeting any other carriage or horse. This rule does not apply in the case of a carriage meeting a foot-passenger, but a driver is bound to use due care to avoid driving against any person crossing the highway on foot. At the same time a passenger crossing the highway is also bound to use due care in avoiding vehicles, and the mere fact of a driver being on the wrong side of the road would not be evidence of negligence in such a case.
- The playing of football on public highways, with a maximum penalty of forty shillings.
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