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Posted By holmezy
Hi Folks,
need your help...
I'm looking for examples of accidents or prosecutions that are related to people working excessive hours then driving, or driving for excessive hours. I seem to remember a recent case re a kitchen fitting firm whos boss used to make his staff work daft hours then drive??? Also, the chap who drove of a bridge and caused an accident?
Help gratefully recieved>
Holmezy
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Posted By peter gotch
Hi Holmezy
Google for "Great Heck" should get you the M62 incident.
The other one was in a relatively recent Practitioner so you might find it at SHPOnline.
Good luck. P
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Posted By Garry Homer
One is known as the Great Heck Rail Disaster. This was where a guy was jailed for allegedly falling asleep at the wheel of his land rover that left the M62 and landed on the rail tracks in front of a goods train. The land rover derailed the train and the next passenger train ran into the derailed goods train.
Some sleep expert calmed we all should not drive unless we have had at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep. No doubt it was this testimony that jailed the chap. By this standard I should never drive!
A good advert for the strength of a land rover.
There was an inquiry into the standard of protection provided at bridges but the official view was there was no question to answer. You will now noticed a large number of bridges have more protection around them!
Garry
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