The trial for the truck driver involved in a fatal accident that killed a mother and her twin sons in 2002, continued Wednesday in the Sudbury courthouse.
Michael Hickey was charged with three counts of criminal negligence causing death. Day two of the proceeding brought testimonies from five witnesses.
A truck driver, who drove the tractor-trailer before Hickey, testified he had warned Hickey the day of the accident of the vehicle's tendencies to tilt while taking right corners.
"I told him that the trailer wanted to lean a bit to the left," said William Harvie.
The witness also said an inspection was done on the tractor-trailer before he went on the road in Winnipeg.
Mario Legendre, also a transport driver, said he had followed Hickey's transport from Nairn Centre until the collision.
He did not notice anything unusual about the transport prior to the collision.
The corner just after the Killarney turnoff on Highway 69 is one that has given him problems in his transport, he said.
"It's just a corner that you have to respect and that's it," the driver said.
Sudburian Gaetan Legault was driving northbound on the highway when the collision occurred.
Kelly Ann Henderson, the mother killed in the crash, passed Legault's vehicle near the beginning of the curve where the crash occurred.
She was not driving in a hurried manner, he said.
"There was plenty of time to see a young man in the back playing guitar," the witness said.
The trailer began to lean and then rolled over, causing the tractor to flip on the driver's side.
"She (Henderson) just swerved right, right off the road," said Legault.
The trial is expected to continue through next week.
