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Driver sues TDG after his truck is blown over

LGV driver Brian Young has instigated a personal injury claim against his employer TDG after being injured when his truck overturned in strong winds in February. Young was left with a compound double wrist fracture, shattered ankle and shin, and lacerations to his face after the TDG truck he was driving was blown over on to a stone wall on the northbound carriageway of the A68 on 21 February. He was trapped in the cab for some time before being found.

Young has now instructed Irwin Mitchell to pursue a personal injury claim against TDG. Rachel Di Clemente, industrial injury expert at Irwin Mitchell, says: "When dangerous weather conditions are forecast, an employer should warn their drivers and take any necessary precautions to prevent them from being injured. This is a critical health and safety issue for employers, often overlooked.

"In this case, the vehicle's load [of empty plastic bottles] was particularly light and therefore at greater risk of overturning in wind. The employer should have taken this into account before sending its drivers out that evening," she says. "One of Young's colleagues, driving a similar vehicle, pulled up at the accident scene a short time later. As he was chatting with the traffic officer, his own parked vehicle was also blown over." A TDG spokeswoman says: "We take health and safety issues very seriously, but unfortunately we AdTech Ad  cannot comment on an ongoing investigation."

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