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Faulty brakes cause accident but company takes it in hand
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A CUMBRIAN operator has escaped a warning for defective brakes on a trailer involved in an accident after an inquiry accepted it did everything it could to put matters right. Sam ()stk. & Sons appeared before North WestemTraffic Commissioner Beverley Bell to explain the defective brakes and a missing ISO cable on another trailer to connect the electronic braking system.
Vehicle examiner Matthew Grieve said that following a road traffic accident in July 2003 a trailer was given an immediate prohibition for low service brake efficiency. The trailer had undergone a major brake conversion from discs to drums and the brakes were wrongly adjusted.
The type of slack adjuster fitted during the con version had a different adjustment procedure to the more common type in use. He had not come across the slack adjusters on the trailer with the brake conversion before.
MD Sam Ostle said they had bought a new trailer with discs brakes that kept seizing up and having to be burnt off so they had the brakes changed. After the vehicle was involved in the accident the adjusters were found to be broken. Following the accident the adjusters were changed to the more usual type.
Ostle said the company only had one tank trailer that required an ISO cable. The ABS system would still have been working without that cable as the signal went down a different cable.
For the company, Andrew Woolfall said all the drivers had been instructed to fit ISO cables. The driver concerned had been disciplined. His explanation had been that as he was running empty he had thought the cable was not required.
Taking no action, the TC said she had considered issuing a formal warning hut felt that it would be inappropriate to warn a company that had done everything it could.