LOADED LORRIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 9

LOADED LORRIES.

WARNINGS AT NIGHT. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, July 13. The opinion that lorries carrying overhanging loads should display marker lights was expressed by the Coroner at an inquest this afternoon on Leonard Leslie Hart, aged 26, married, and George Gordon Davidson, aged 33, married, two Hiliersden farmers', whose deaths followed a collision between a motor-car driven by Davidson and a lorry driven by Alervyn Albert Prentice, near Wairau Valley, on the evening of June 15. The evidence disclosed that the vehicles met on a straight, wide road after nightfall. The lorry-driver aware that his loads, consisting of heavy logs, overhung the deck, pulled as far as possible to the correct side. Davidson, who was following a course along the centre of the road, evidently dazzled by. the lorry’s headlights, did not see the projection', with the result that he crashed into the lorry deck and logs alongside the driver’s cab. The side of the car was ripped out by the terrific impact. Davidson was terribly injured and died in hospital a for.night later, but Hart, who was seated immediately behind him, was killed instantly. The Coroner, in exonerating the lorry-driver, said it was quite evident that Davidson misjudged his position as a result of the dazzling lights in the drizzling rain.