Truck driver suffered diabetic episode before rest stop crash that killed girl, court hears

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A truck driver suffered a diabetic episode before his B-double lost control and slammed into a rest stop in the Macarthur Region of NSW, killing a young girl, a court has heard. 9News

Today, Brendan Lidgard, the man behind the wheel when the truck crashed in Menangle, injuring three others, went on trial.

On July 10, 2020, the B-double he drove for concrete company Boral was seen swerving along the Hume Highway for up to two kilometres. Today the court heard Mr Lidgard was on a regime of four doses of insulin a day but about an hour before the crash, he allegedly prescribed himself a fifth, which caused a hypoglycemic episode while behind the wheel.The truck careered into a rest stop in 2020.

 

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