Licence lost after fatal accident
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• A Swansea firm has had its licence revoked because of the condition of a vehicle which hod been involved in a fatal accident. The driver of the vehicle, operated by Ann and Clive Rees, trading as Tro[an Plant Hire, died after it toppled over at the Aberthaw Power Station. The firm, which held a three-vehicle licence, was called before South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh. Clive Rees conceded that the vehicle had been used with defective brakes when replacement ports were on order. He agreed that he should have kept the vehicle off the road but pointed out that the condition of the brakes had not contributed to the fatal accident. He maintained that some of the damage to the vehicle had been caused by a crane which had lifted it.
Mervyn Pugh revoked the licence and said Rees had allowed a potentially dangerous vehicle to go out on the road. "It was perfectly clear there were defects to the braking system and the mistake was allowing the vehicle to continue on the rood," he said.