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Haul truck driver speeding, report says

PRELIMINARY investigations by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety suggest the haul truck driver who died when his vehicle left a ramp at Paraburdoo’s Channar mine and crashed into a windrow was driving at nearly 60 kilometres per hour over the recommended downhill hauling speed limit.

 The Channar mine

The Channar mine

During the night shift on August 15, 28-year-old haul-truck driver Daniel Patterson died when he lost control of a fully-loaded Komatsu 830E haul truck and crashed into a windrow on his way from the pit...

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