We determine whether certain instructions given at appellee’s request were erroneous, and whether it was prejudicial for the trial court to hold that counsel for appellant should not interrogate prospective jurors as to insurance affiliations.
Appellant, plaintiff below, was struck by a motorcycle. He was attempting to cross Victory street (in Little Rock) in front of a street car. The motorcycle was being operated by Victor Wild, who had a companion with him. Wild was making a business trip for appellee. When the accident occurred, the street car was about two-thirds through an intersection.
Prom satisfactory evidence the jury could have found that appellant undertook to cross in front of the street car while the car was moving; that in doing so he stepped into a position of peril; that Wild was not negligent in failing to anticipate appellant’s movements, and that the collision was unavoidable.
There was a verdict for the defendant.
The first assignment of error is that the court improperly ruled that plaintiff’s counsel should not interrogate members of the jury panel on the subject of possible insurance affiliations.
*427The question was, “Do any of you have any business connection with any insurance company writing liability insurance?”
Upon objection being made, the court retired to chambers, and in the absence of the jury the president and the secretary of appellee corporation testified that when the accident occurred there was no liability insurance, but that a policy was procured a few days later. Prior to the accident the two witnesses.had discussed advisability of procuring insurance, but they had not contacted or talked with any insurance representative with respect to the subject.
Specifically, the-court ruled: “Let the objection be sustained. The' court holds that counsel for plaintiff Avould have the right to ask the jurors what business they are engaged in, without referring to any particular occupation or profession.”'
Ground for objection was that the plaintiff should not be denied the right to ask whether any of the veniremen was connected with the insurance company which wrote the policy issued subsequent to the injury.1
The principle was announced in Pekin Stave & Manufacturing Company v. Ramey, 104 Ark. 1, 147 S. W. 83, that if counsel for plaintiff, acting in good faith, had reason to believe any of the veniremen was connected with a casualty company .insuring the defendant, an in*428quiry directed to a discovery of such fact Avas proper. Other cases are to the same effect.2
In Baldwin, et al., Trustee for Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Hunnicutt, 192 Ark. 441, 93 S. W. 2d 131, it was held that counsel had the right to interrogate prospective jurors to ascertain their names, residence, business, and such other information as would enable counsel to exercise the right of challenge for cause or peremptory challenge Avithout cause.3 Other Arkansas cases cited, by appellant are Williams v. Cantwell, 114 Ark. 542, 170 S. W. 250, and Cooper v. Kelley, 131 Ark. 6, 198 S. W. 94. In the Cooper-Kelley Case Mr. Justice Wood, speaking for the court, said: “Questions that are intended to elicit any possible bias or prejudice that the veniremen might have, ‘likely to influence his verdict one way or the other,’ are always proper.”
In the recent case of Ward v. Haralson, 196 Ark. 785, 120 S. W. 2d 322, an attorney for the plaintiff, in addressing a witness, said, “You went out there representing the state of Arkansas,' representing the defendant *429and an insurance company, and made those measurements.” It was held that this'was prejudicial error.4
It is our view appellant has not shown that he was prejudiced by the court’s refusal to permit counsel to specifically pursue the inquiry regarding the possible interest or non-interest of veniremen in an indemnity insurance company. It is not shown that any venireman was asked what his or her business was, or that an equivocal answer was given. It will be presumed that, under the court’s 'ruling, questions within the latitude accorded were asked, or that counsel elected not to pursue the subject. It is not shown that because of doubt or uncertainty created by any of the answers given, appellant exhausted his peremptory challenges. Peremptory challenge would not have been necessary if responses to the character of questions sought to be asked by appellant had shown the right to challenge for cause, and it is appellant’s contention that such showing could not be made because of limitations imposed by the court.
Instruction No. 2 told the jury that “the defendant cannot be held liable for the result of any act or omission of Victor Wild, the result of which could not have been reasonably foreseen or anticipated by Victor Wild.”
It is urged that the measure of care contemplated by the law was not what Victor Wild could have foreseen, but what a man of ordinary prudence, in the circumstances, would have anticipated.5 The instruction is not *430inherently wrong.5 There was only a general objection. .Effect of the instruction was merely to tell the jury that liability does not attach to one who, without fault of his own, is precipitated into. an unavoidable accident. In Taggart v. Scott, 193 Ark. 930, 104 S. W. 2d 816, an instruction similar to the one here complained of was given.6 We there held that, properly construed, the instruction told the jury that ordinary care was required.7
The vice urged against instruction .No. 14 is that it told the jury that operation of the motorcycle by appel-lee’s employee at an excessive speed, or running the motorcycle past the street car at the intersection in viola*431tion of city ordinances,‘ would not of itself or themselves conclusively establish negligence. ”8
We have frequently held that violation of a state law, or violation of a city ordinance, is merely evidence of negligence, and does not constitute negligence per se. 9
Instruction. No. 16 told the jury that the rule of law requiring drivers to exercise care commensurate with the dangers reasonably to be anticipated did not require Victor Wild to anticipate appellant’s action.10 Appellant in*432sists that it is for the jury to find, in a particular caso, whether violation of a safety ordinance constitutes negligence. We think any uncertainty in that part of the instruction to which exception is taken was cured by other language in the same instruction which told the jury that “failure of Victor Wild to anticipate such action, if any, on the part of plaintiff, would not establish conclusively that Victor Wild was negligent in passing said street car. ’ ’
Finally, appellant insists that it was error to give multiple and duplicate instructions at the request of defendant. It is true a great many instructions were given; yet, they are not duplicates. It is better practice to limit instructions to the law applicable to essential subjects of controversy brought out by the evidence, but in the instant case the record does not disclose an abuse of the privilege each side to the controversy had to submit its theory under appropriate instructions.
The judgment is affirmed.
ITumpheeys and Mehapfy, JJ., dissent.