Council and road-repair firms fined over fatality

Kent County Council and three other companies have been fined a total of £90,000 plus costs at Maidstone Crown Court for breaches of health and safety legislation.
The prosecutions arose from an incident that occurred in October 2001 on the A20 in Kent. A paving machine and other plant were being loaded on to a lorry low loader trailer. The plant had been parked next to the road overnight following the resurfacing of a section of the road that had been completed the previous day. The low lo... (398 more words)

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