POLICE have confirmed a 20-year-old learner driver was behind the wheel of an NBN Co truck, which crushed a 57-year-old man during a workplace accident in Kiama on Friday morning.
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Emergency services were called to Seaview Street at around 11.35am to find the Lake Heights man with serious head injuries.
Police were first on the scene and applied CPR for several minutes, however the man was pronounced dead shortly after.
Relieving Lake Illawarra Commander Acting Superintendent Andrew Koutsoufis said the man had been trapped between a stationary truck belonging to a concreting company working at a nearby house and a second truck operated by NBN Co.
According to police, the victim - working for the concreting company - had been collecting an item from the back of the first truck when the unaccompanied learner driver entered the NBN truck, parked immediately behind.
‘‘It was a tragic incident for the fellow - he had moved between two trucks, one lurched forward and trapped him,’’ Supt Koutsoufis said.
‘‘It appears at this stage the NBN truck had lurched forward.’’
The NBN truck’s driver was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.
NBN Co was laying topsoil in the area.
Seaview Street was closed for several hours while the Crash Investigation Unit and WorkCover investigated the incident.
Counsellors were also on the scene to help to assist personnel and witnesses.