AWARDING £44,000 egret damages to a lorry driver w was crippled in an accide
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caused by his "tipper" sudder lifting up of its own accord,!
Justice Beldam said in the Hi Court last week that there oug to be some kind of interlocki mechanism to prevent su accidents.
"In this age of mechanical a electronic wizardry it does seem beyond the wit of man invent such a device."
Thomas Croucher, of Pe ham, South East London, vl driving a tipper lorry on June 1976 when its hydraulic mech. ism suddenly began to operat The raised tipper collided In a footbridge and Mr Croucl suffered severe damage to back and was now unable walk.
Judgment was entered, vi costs, against Mr Croucher's E ployers at the time of the ii dent, John Sugrue and Cc pany of Harrow Wea Middlesex.
THE TWO DIRECTORS of Li Transport International, ha at Ashford Airport in Kent, h bought the wholly owned .1 sidiary of Tozer, Kemsley Millbourn.
John Smith, managing di tor and Roger Arnold, finer director have formed a c, pany, together with the Ind rial and Commercial Fins Corporation, called Lorstocl which Mr Smith and Mr An are major shareholders.
Lorstock payed £150,000 gether with a repayment to 1 of a £100,000 loan for L Transport. Its turnover for year ended December 31, 1 was £5.2m.