I agree, if a tragic accident happened involving the lorry the most sensible thing a driver could do is to call for help as honesty is the best policy but if the driver panicked, he could have been unwilling to call someone for a number of reasons. I'm not sure if he was a new driver but I don't think he was a regular on that route so he could easily have been quite new in the job or a temp from an agency. I'm not saying that this is the case but there are a number of factors that could lead to someone not adopting the sensible approach after an accident. He could have had alcohol in his system, he could have 9 points on his licence, some taxi drivers have been found out recently for not having a legal right to work in the UK, who knows how some people would react in this situation but sheer panic would have set in. Is it possible that this has been a tragic accident and is it also possible that the lorry bypassed the recycling sorting centre on purpose and went right to the landfill as a result of an accident?
I agree panic makes people do odd thing but thinking through what might have happened
- bin driver hits C some how
- gets out of cab to move bin and sees what he's done
- is C killed instantly by a slow moving lorry, I;d guess very injured but not dead is a split second
- driver panics and rather than call an ambulance decides to put C in his lorry
- he then has to manhandle him into the bin, this I just don't get, did he tip the bin on it's side and some how roll C in? That's not easy, did he literally lift him up and into the bin, one person couldn;t do that IMO
- he's lucky as no one comes into the HS while he's doing it
- he carries on with his route as normal
- he gets lucky as no one notice a body at any time prior to the waste getting into the LF
- he's lucky as HS gives the police the worng weight
- he's lucky that no one at Biifa realises the error
- he's able to convince SP he knows nothing
- he carries on his normal life and no one realises
Thinking out loud but I can't see that as happening but then again very odd things do occur
JMO