R v Beaumont [1964]
- Reported: [1964] CRIM L.R. 665; 114 L.J 739
- Year: 1964
- Court: Court of Appeal
FACTS:-
The defendant was convicted of being in charge of a motor-vehicle on a road when unfit to drive through drink. The road was an occupation road leading to a farm and to part of the farmer’s land occupied by some 250-300 caravans in one of which the defendant lived. At the entrance to the road was a notice which read: “Trespassers will be prosecuted.”
HELD:-
It was held that the road did not come within the definition in the Road Traffic Act 1960 s.257. The fact that the class of persons permitted to use a road is large does not make it a road of public access. The appeal was allowed.
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