§ Captain STRICKLANDasked the Home Secretary whether he has yet received a report on the case of a road offence at Watling Street, Grendon, on 11th February, in which a police car, travelling at 40 miles per hour over a blind bridge, was involved; and whether police court proceedings have been, or are to be, instituted against the officer concerned on the charge of driving to the public danger?
§ Mr. LLOYDMy right hon. Friend has caused inquiry to be made in this case and has been supplied with photographs of the scene. There is no bridge at this spot, and the range of the driver's vision over the brow of the hill which he was approaching is at least 100 yards. The police driver was on his right side of the road and had to brake suddenly to avoid a lorry which pulled out from behind an omnibus. The Chief Constable decided that there were no grounds for a charge of dangerous driving against the police driver; this view is confirmed by the evidence of the only independent witness and, on the full information my right hon. Friend now has before him, he sees no reason to dissent from the Chief Constable's view of the case.