A Bay of Plenty company has been sentenced for its role in sending a dense cloud of lime dust across a motorway, that resulted in a deadly multi-vehicle crash.
The company was spreading lime at a dairy farm next to the Tauranga Eastern Link Road in February 2020, when the lime cloud drifted across the motorway.
With visibility suddenly reduced to almost nothing, Susan Walmsley crashed her car and was killed.
The company Wealleans has been ordered to pay a $360,000 fine, $210,000 in emotional harm reparations, and other reparations of almost $90,000.
WorkSafe area investigation manager, Paul West, says it was by sheer luck nobody else was killed.
He spoke to Corin Dann.
