Sandys v Harrison

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 21 December 1926
• Date: 21 December 1926
• Docket Number: (1924. No. 8,034.)
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)

S. C.,

Sandys

and

Harrison

Collision between motor cycle and motor car - Defendant able to avoid accident notwithstanding plaintiff's negligence - Defendant taking wrong measures to avoid accident in emergency caused by plaintiff's negligence - Extent of obligation on defendant - Defendant unaware at time of impact that collision had occurred - Evidence of want of care in driving motor car - Contradictory findings by the jury -Insufficiency of Judge's direction to jury.

Plaintiff was driving her motor cycle and defendant his motor car on the public road in opposite directions. In passing, the motor car collided with the handlebar of the motor cycle, and plaintiff was injured. The collision occurred where a bridge crosses a river almost at right angles to the road, making a dangerous turning on the road at each...