Council fined after child is killed by refuse collection van

The HSE is warning the waste industry to ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent injuries caused by reversing waste and recycling collection vehicles, following the prosecution of Coventry City Council after an 11-year old girl was killed.  

On the morning of 4 April 2006, Amy Robinson, 11, was on her way to school when she was struck and killed by a reversing City Council collection vehicle at the junction of Longfellow Road and Coleridge Road in the Stoke area of Coventr... (312 more words)

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