Australia’s premier trucking safety body has been split by a controversial decision to support the firm whose vehicle hit and killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway in 2020.
On April 22, 2020, a Connect Logistics truck driven by Mohinder Singh killed senior constables Lynette Taylor and Kevin King and constables Glen Humphris and Joshua Prestney after they had pulled over speeding Porsche driver Richard Pusey in Kew, in Melbourne’s east. Three senior managers of the company have been charged under the “chain of responsibility” provisions in the National Heavy Vehicle Law for directing Singh to work when he had informed the company he was not in a fit state to drive safely.TruckSafe was established after a series of multiple fatality crashes found to have been caused by poor safety practises.