Army officer, 26, was crushed by a reversing Warrior whose safety alarm had been broken for FOUR YEARS, inquest hears
Second Lieutenant Max George, whose nine-fault Warrior vehicle had no means of alerting its driver or commander that the rear door was open when he was killed on Salisbury Plain in 2022.The Warrior's reversing alarm had been broken for three years before it struck Max George, Salisbury Coroner's Court heard.
Second Lieutenant Max George was reaching back inside for his weapon when the commander ordered a fast reverse on Salisbury Plain in June 2022. Comrades shouted 'wait' and sounded horns, but the warnings came too late. Lt Col Graham Watson said the driver 'would have almost certainly stopped' had the alarm worked. The Army admitted using the vehicle was 'not correct' after 24 more severe faults were found.
The Warrior had nine known faults, none ranked urgent enough to need fixing first.
The rear-door alarms were a safety measure introduced following two deaths in the 1990s.
'Max George was loved by everyone he met,' his mother told the coroner's court.
