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Accidental death verdict on runaway trailer fatality
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• A verdict of accidental death has been recorded on a driver who was killed when the trailer he was attempting to couple ran down a hill and crushed him. Richard Pheasey was working for his father's firm, HG Pheasey & Sons, when he died from multiple injuries in the accident that was the result of "bad working practices", according to accident investigator PC Brian Parker. Last week an inquest at Buxton, Derbys heard that on 8 March Pheasey had backed up a tractor ready to couple it to a trailer. The driver who had uncoupled it the ni0ht before had failed to put on the trailer brake: the action of removing the air supply had activated its brakes. PC Parker said it was his belief that Pheasey had reconnected the air supply which had freed the trailers brakes and it had rolled down the hill and crushed him to death. "In my opinion the accident resulted from bad working practice coupled with the fact Pheasey had forgotten to apply the parking brake," he said. High Peak coroner Clive Rushton recorded a verdict of accidental death.
( ) HG Pheasey & Sons was fined by Bakewell magistrates Iwo years ago for using a tanker with defective brakes and steering following an accident in which Sue Williams, mother of Mary Williams, director of haulage safety group Brake, was killed.