Death of driver struck by his own HGV

I suppose to bring the thread back on track, it is very sad for the remaining family, in the local paper it says that he was coupling up at 7am in Bisons yard, the unit started to move and whether he had been using palms or C type, he committed the ultimate sin and jumped off the catwalk to try to reach the drivers door and footbrake presumably, he was squished by his own unit.

RIP Gary Walters 51

thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/ … ticle.html

For me palm couplings are preferable, or even using a wheel chock as used in Germany.

I did this once while coupling, popped the red line on, with unit handbrake off :blush: As soon as it moved I realised and grabbed the red line, this happened right under the noses of the fleet manager and the boss :blush: The fleet manager sidled over and said, “you wont do that again will you■■?”