Video / AP / NZHeraldThe daughter of a roadworker killed by a truck says he’d previously spoken about his fear of being hit due to the number of trucks that sped through work sites. An investigation revealed Stacy was speeding and the service brakes on his truck, which was transporting dirt from a nearby slip, were only working at 33 per cent capacity. On the morning of February 12, Stacy was driving a McGowan Transport truck that was helping repair a slip on the SH23 deviation. “This is not a situation just simply of a truck driver driving too fast and being careless in wet conditions,” he said. He noted there was “reasonably strong evidence” to suggest Stacy’s truck was travelling at 35km/h just prior to the checkpoint, which wasn’t too dissimilar to a truck travelling immediately before it at 28km/h.
