29 Mar 2021

Truck handbrake banned years after authorities learned dangers

From Morning Report, 7:38 am on 29 March 2021

A truck handbrake that caused at least two deaths and multiple serious crashes has only just been banned, though authorities have known for years it was dangerous.

The ban comes two years after the latest death, of a 25-year-old father of two roadworker hit by a runaway truck in Ngauranga Gorge.

Phil Pennington has this report.