Fred Barker

Fred Barker was run over by a motor-lorry on the Westwood New Road in Tankersley on Tuesday 12 June 1934.

A policeman that went to the scene of the accident said that it appeared that Fred Barker had been pulling a hand-cart or truck down a slight gradient in the same direction as the lorry. He said that the marks on the road indicated that the truck was about six feet from the cart and that Fred Barker had been carried with the truck a distance of about 66 feet after the collision. He said that the lorry then travelled on another 72 feet before it pulled up and noted that the front near side of it was damaged.