Fatality on Ginninderra Drive

truckieswife said :

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out.. I am a close friend of this family.. so.. there needs to be an investigation into the truck owner….

my heart goes out to his family.. being the wife of a truckie.. makes me even sadder.. my prayers are with you all.. especially the the one I hugged today..

Seatbelts save lives!

We could all sit here all day saying this is what happend or that, but at the end of the day we might just let the appropriate professionals investigate this unfortunate accident and see what conclusion it comes to

truckieswife said :

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out.. I am a close friend of this family.. so.. there needs to be an investigation into the truck owner….

my heart goes out to his family.. being the wife of a truckie.. makes me even sadder.. my prayers are with you all.. especially the the one I hugged today..

truckieswife said :

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out.. I am a close friend of this family.. so.. there needs to be an investigation into the truck owner….

my heart goes out to his family.. being the wife of a truckie.. makes me even sadder.. my prayers are with you all.. especially the the one I hugged today..

It is an unfortunate circumstance what happened but i think the trucks owner would not be or held accounted for following this freak accident, i think you just dont fall out of a truck going around a corner. Was he wearing a seatbelt? Cause I know that particular truck is factory fitted with a seat belt or could it have been a heart-attack.

SheepGroper said :

truckieswife said :

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out..

Wouldn’t the seat belt prevent falling out?

Sounds mighty odd.. you would probably have to be doing a high speed to enable your body to move that far while going around a corner.

truckieswife said :

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out..

Wouldn’t the seat belt prevent falling out?

well when a door does not lock properly it is easy to fall out.. I am a close friend of this family.. so.. there needs to be an investigation into the truck owner….

my heart goes out to his family.. being the wife of a truckie.. makes me even sadder.. my prayers are with you all.. especially the the one I hugged today..

Obviously that stretch of road needs a speed camera…

Thumper I don’t know if your a northsider or not, But there IS a speed camera at this intersection.

Do we say everyone who drives a car is bad at it when there is a fatal car accident? Often those who criticise truck drivers have VERY little knowledge of the skill it takes to drive such a large vehicle (particularly when sharing roads with car drivers who think that a truck can pull up as quickly as a car, or uses the same turning circle).

My condolences to the family.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

There’s about 8 million and three ways this could have happened. I suggest we wait for info before casting judgement.

I am not saying i know what happened vy, but, as i have several members of my family who drive trucks, saying that most people are just lousy at their jobs, is a bit of a stretch to what has happened here. My condolences for his family.

Zilog said :

Very many professional drivers very often drive in a very unprofessional manner. Most people are just plain lousy at their jobs. That’s all.

Do you drive a truck? This type of accident does happen. You might ask how a skip container managed to fall on and crush a man at Evatt shops, but it does happen. I think pure bad luck might be the culprit here.

There’s about 8 million and three ways this could have happened. I suggest we wait for info before casting judgement.

Zilog said :

Very many professional drivers very often drive in a very unprofessional manner. Most people are just plain lousy at their jobs. That’s all.

good to hear that you know everything about everything. this could have been a freak accident, the driver may have been out of the truck with the engine running, perhaps checking his load or the tray and it has engaged a gear and shaken him loose, throwing him down from the cab.

how many times have you stopped your car on the side of the road to check something? do you leave the car running, or do you turn it off?

More in the CT:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/truck-driver-crushed-to-death-after-fall-from-cab/1460873.aspx

Very many professional drivers very often drive in a very unprofessional manner. Most people are just plain lousy at their jobs. That’s all.

He probably hit the gutter and his door wasn’t closed properly or something. I drive a truck and they bounce around enough as it is.

I drove past the accident at 4pm – shortly after it occurred. Police still blocking off the road, didn’t look too pretty.. Drove past again maybe 15mins ago. Plenty of police still there.

I however don’t recall seeing a truck at the scene only a 4wd drive. I am confused as to how a driver turning left falls out of the right hand side of a car ? Tragic

Special G said :

Drove past this one just after it happened. Didn’t look flash. Thought he might have been hit as a pedestrian as I couldn’t see the truck.

How does one fall from a truck that you are driving?

Truckies generally don’t wear seat belts… Something similar happened at the Glenlock interchange a few years ago as well I think.

This is tragic. There must have been plenty of witnesses in that area.

Drove past this one just after it happened. Didn’t look flash. Thought he might have been hit as a pedestrian as I couldn’t see the truck.

How does one fall from a truck that you are driving?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/16/2517668.htm?site=canberra

The very brief report says a man fell out of the truck he was driving and then under the rear wheels?!

Also it was the corner of Aikman and Ginninderra Drive, where the retirement village is going up.

Damn that sucks. I just drove past there and wondered what was going on.

There were workcover people everywhere and they were looking around on the ground. I assumed it was maybe some kind of explosion.