Fresh appeal for witnesses over Sussex man's crash death (From The Argus)
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Fresh appeal for witnesses over Sussex man's crash death
11:15am Saturday 31st July 2010 in
Police have made a fresh appeal for witnesses after a man was killed in a freak road accident.
Kent Police have returned to the scene of the car crash where Michael Baker, 47, of Granville Road, Littlehampton, was killed when the recovery lorry he was a passenger in was forced off the road after a stone hit the windscreen.
The recovery truck ploughed into the back of a stationary lorry near the Swanley Interchange in Kent on Saturday.
Three boys, aged 10, 12, and 15, and a 13-year-old girl have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
A mobile police station has been set up at a Kent estate in the hope more witnesses will come forward.
Chief Inspector Adrian Futers said: 'It is our duty to the loved ones of Michael Baker to find out how and why he died."
Father-of-four Mr Baker, his partner Sheila Bright and her pregnant daughter Paige, 17, had been on their way to visit friends in Sidcup, Kent, when they were involved in an accident on the M25.
Ms Bright and Paige were taken to hospital and Mr Baker rode in the recovery truck.
He suffered serious injuries in the crash and later died in hospital.
Comments(4)
TheInsider
says...
1:39pm Sat 31 Jul 10
It is up to the coroner to give a verdict not a reporter.
Poor journalistic standards.
tombraider59
says...
10:59am Sun 1 Aug 10
Also no indication as to why the recovery truck came to hit the lorry in the first place. In a similar incident shown on TV last Weds, the driver hit a car that had broken down and was done for driving without due care etc., although thankfully nobody was killed.
Off my CHEST!
says...
11:49am Mon 2 Aug 10
It is blatantly obvious Chief Inspector Futers. The vehicle he was traveling in hit a parked Truck. Which was not in the carriageway it was on the Hard Shoulder.
Why it was parked is another story altogether.
There, I have got that off my Chest!
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Tammy Flugh says...
12:14pm Sat 31 Jul 10
Throwing stones at vehicles on a motorway has the sole purpose of causing damage at best, and injury or death at worst.