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Negligence & Apportionment: Driver injuring child pedestrian: A driver, whose vehicle struck and injured a child pedestrian, had been negligent in not seeing the child on the kerb and/or crossing the road, and/or by not slowing down, and/or by not sounding his horn. However, on the facts, the child ought to have realised the need to look out carefully for traffic coming from his right on a busy road and his contributory negligence was assessed at 20%.
