À propos de l’éclairage — L’Officiel du cycle, 16 June 1951, an Important Ruling of the Dijon Court of Appeal on Night Lighting for Bicycles

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 16 June 1951, N° 17, page 5: A propos de l’éclairage, Un important arrêt: a Cour d’Appel de Dijon ruling on night lighting for bicycles and the liability of a cyclist. The title, headings, captions and lists are transcribed as printed; the text is summarized in Ebykr’s words, and the page images carry it in full.

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A PROPOS DE L’ÉCLAIRAGE

Un important arrêt

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Cour d’Appel de Dijon has lately given a ruling that may revive the legal quarrel between supporters and opponents of night lighting for bicycles that are not ridden. Contradicting a ruling of the Conseil d’Etat, the Dijon judges assigned one tenth of the responsibility to a pedestrian injured in an accident while walking on the right of the road holding an unlit bicycle by hand. The author says the debate would be settled if the new Code de la Route now being prepared by the services of the Ministère des Travaux Publics stated this point of detail, and it seems that, taking the Geneva road convention into account, the plan is to remedy this gap in the present Code, which is not the only one.]

[A short text item with a title and subtitle. “A PROPOS DE L’ÉCLAIRAGE” is set in heavy sans-serif capitals, centered, with the subtitle “Un important arrêt” in bold lower case beneath it. A single block of light roman type follows, with indented paragraphs, and a short rule is centered below the last line. There is no illustration, signature or firm address.]