Kapi v Ministry of Transport - [1992] 1 NZLR 227

Transport and transport licensing — Offences — Failing to stop and ascertain whether any person had been injured — Defence of necessity or duress of circumstances — Whether defence is available in regard to traffic offences — Whether an honest belief in danger has to be based on reasonable grounds — If reasonable grounds are required whether violent nature of life in Porirua supplied them and judicial notice ought to be taken of that — Transport Act 1962, s 65(1) - Crimes Act 1961, s 20.