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Truck incident on south-eastern freeway shows coroner recommednations ignored
A near-miss on the South-Eastern Freeway yesterday when a truck driver was forced to slam into a pile of gravel, shows how coroner recommendations from six years ago are still being ignored, says the Transport Workers’ Union.
A 2015 inquest into the deaths of James Venning and John Posnakidis, which occurred on separate occasions close to beginning of the freeway, made recommendations about the South-Eastern Freeway.
The coroner recommended that truck drivers be given specific training on driving down the South Eastern Freeway, using arrester beds and that they should be supervised when using the freeway for the first time.