ABSTRACT
Lord Goddard CJ: This special case stated by justices for the County Borough of Brighton concerns two informations preferred against the respondent, the first for the dangerous driving of a motor vehicle contrary to s 11(1) of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and the second for failing to conform to a Halt sign contrary to s 49(b) of the Act. The facts found by the justices are that at 10.45 pm on the evening of 12 April this year the respondent drove a motor van along Springfield Road, Brighton, in a westerly direction and where that road crosses Beaconsfield Road he ignored an illuminated Halt sign, drove across the road junction at a fast speed and came into collision with a car which was being driven northwards in Beaconsfield Road. The respondent’s van then carried on for a short distance and overturned. A police constable arrived and found the respondent in a dazed condition and at the hospital to which he was taken he said:
I remember being in Preston Circus going to Withdean. I don’t remember anything else until I was searching for my glasses. I don’t know what happened.
