Driver of crash van asleep?
NZPA-Reuter Melbourne Three New Zealanders died by misadventure when theii mini-bus hit a parked semitrailer on the Hume highway on October 31, the Melbourne Coroner has found. Mr P. Westmore, S.M., was holding an inquest into the deaths of John Edmonds, Gemima Su’a, and Kure Jim Mare, all of Parnell, Auckland. He found that Messrs Edmonds and Mare died in the crash near Beveridge, about 60km north of Melbourne. Mr Su’a died on November
6 at Royal Melbourne Hospital, from injuries suffered in the accident. Tne coroner said it seemed that the mini-bus driver, John Horsefall, had set out to drive from Sydney to Melbourne non-stop. “He had been at the wheel six hours and it could be that he went to sleep,” he said. Other passengers in the mini-bus might also have been asleep, unable to notice that the driver was not in full control. The court was told that the driver of the van could . not appear because he was , in New Zealand.
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