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• A company whose employee died in a road accident
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in volving a heavy goods vehicle is suing the lorry driver concerned and his employer, Melrowand, for alleged negligence.
In a High Court writ issued in London, G W Swift (Hull) claims damages against Melrowand and its employee, P Cresswell, following an accident on 26 November 1986.
G W Swift of "Lion Works", Wincolmlee, Hull, claims that its employee, George Hoe, was driving along a contraflow on the A34 dual carriageway near West Ilsley when the accident occurred.
The writ states that an artic driven in the opposite direction by Cresswell jackknifed and crossed the centre of the road, colliding with Hoe, who was fatally injured.
The writ asserts that Melrowand of Beal Hall, Manor Road, Beal, near Goole, North Humberside, negligently allowed Cresswell, of Queen Street, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, to drive a vehicle with defective brakes.
• Coach driver Denis Brook, of Colescliffe Road, Barrowcliffe in Scarborough, has been banned from driving for three years and ordered to do 200 hours' community service (CM 612 April).
The ban follows an accident in which the coach he was driving, with 20 young passengers aboard, ran into traffic bollards.
• The failure of two commercial vehicles operated by Leicester civil engineering contractors Winterway in their annual tests led to the company's appearance at disciplinary proceedings before Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd.