EH v KN Ltd [2024] NZDT 753 (21 November 2024) [pdf, 120 KB]
...fitted to the rear by law and therefore the respondent breached the law by fitting the trye as it did. I can find no such law. The Land Transport Rule Tyres and Wheels 2001 provides that space saver tryers may be fitted to a motor vehicle to replace a disabled tyre, and the vehicle may be operated using the spare tyre, but only in an emergency, and then only if the speed of the vehicle is substantially reduced in dry road conditions and to a greater extent in wet road conditions; and that t...