Airport hit by rash of crashes
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• The Health & Safety Executive is investigating a series of accidents at Manchester Airport's oar parks: one resulted in serious injuries to the driver of an artic dumper.
Firemen had to cut the 17year-old driver from the dumper after its roll bar collided with an overhead gantry at Terminal 2's multi-storey car park.
The gantry collapsed, inflicting severe head injuries on John Flynn, who was on a landscaping contract near the terminal.
A spokeswoman said the same height restriction gantry had been hit by a minibus some weeks before the incident last month. In March the roof of an airport bus was sliced off by a gantry when the driver took a wrong turning. The spokeswoman was unable to confirm the same gantry was involved; or that a van became wedged under another gantry.