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Originally Posted by DJR-351

Pilbara Mt Newman in the mid 80's.....actual accident but thankfully non-fatal.

Hey DJR, out of curiosity, how does an accident like that happen? I'm going to assume that it was the driver of the truck that ran over the car and not the driver of the car running into the path of the truck. f that assumption is reasonable, then would it be safe to say that the dump truck was reversing at the time of the incident? Or was the car parked at the front of the dump truck, and hence obscured vision played a part in it?

Working at a brown coal fired power station with our own open cut mine, I'm well aware of incidents where vehicles have been flattened by the dredgers (and stackers) relocating, but that is primarily because of a significant number of blind spots.

Just curious.