Driver killed by propshaft
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• The trial has begun of two brothers who ran Sheffield-based Loukes Haulage, and one of their drivers, following the death of a motorist when part of a tipper's propshaft came adrift.
The driver is accused of causing the death of Paul Turner by driving a vehicle which was in a dangerous state.
The brothers are both accused of counselling and procuring the driver to drive a dangerous vehicle and causing Turner's death.
Prosecuting, Bernard Phillips said that part of the propshaft came off the vehicle, bounced across the Ml and killed an oncoming driver. A split pin was missing from a castellated nut so there was nothing to prevent the nut coming undone. Phillips told the court that evidence would be given by a police vehicle examiner during the proceedings that the state of the vehicle would have been obvious to the driver as the transmission would have made an unusual noise_
Phillips added that evidence would be given in court that the driver and two of the company's managers were aware that there was a defect in the transmission of the vehicle.
The trial continues.