Date:26/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/26/stories/2008022650110100.htm

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One killed as lorry falls into quarry

Special Correspondent

— Photo: A. Muralitharan

BROKEN inTO PIECES: The remains of a lorry that fell into a quarry in Tirusulam on Monday.

TAMBARAM: A 19-year-old youth was crushed to death on the spot and two others were injured when a stone-laden lorry fell into a quarry from a height of about 70 feet in Tirusulam on Monday.

The Pallavaram police identified the victim as V.Ganesan, of Kannabiran Street in Tirusulam. He was one of the three men transporting a lorry load of stones to a crushing unit. The police said the lorry was making its way up the hillock when the brakes failed. The driver was unable to control the vehicle that started backing up and fell into the quarry.

The other two suffered minor injuries when they fell out of the lorry soon after it began moving backwards.