Two Die After Lorries Fracture Gas Main
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rONTRACTORS taking heavy loads
over carriageways not really built as highways should first find out whether damage is likely, to be caused below the surface. This was recommended by Mr. A. P. Lockwood, the Sheffield coroner, at an inquest last Friday on two aged people who had been found dead in adjoining fiats in Simrn Street,
It was stated that heavy lorries passing over a gas main had caused a leak which led to their deaths. A depression had been caused in the ground by heavy traffic, said Mr. Harry Firth, gas distribution engineer. He explained that the gas main was in a good condition apart from a fracture.
Mr. A. Benton, foreman on an adjacent building site, said that he would have put down some protection from the traffic if he had known there was a gas main beneath the surface.