Worker Killed By Heavy Truck on New Highway
Crushed under the wheels of a fast moving, heavily laden truck while working on the new Carmel - Pacific Grove Highway in the Del Monte Forest, Pedro Alvarado, 47,was instantly killed this morning.
Alvarado, who lived with his wife and family of six children at 840 Munras Avenue, Monterey, had been employed as a laborer for several years by J, L . Connor, local highway contractor who is building the highway.
With a group of four or five other laborers he was moving from one location to work at another this morning when the heavy truck rolled up from behind, crushing him beneath the wheels just as the cries of his comrades warned him of the truck's approach. None of the group had seen the truck coming and the driver, Stephen Portenga of Seaside, failed to see the workers walking along the road.
According to Constable George Kinloch who investigated the accident, Portenga was driving his truck backward, being unable to turn around in the narrow road, and could only see on one side by leaning out of the cab of the truck. The laborers were walking on the side of the truck that Portenga was unable to see.
The heavy truck crushed Alvarado's body causing him instant death. Fellow workmen, seeing that he had been killed outright, called, Deputy Coroner J. E. Freeman and Constable Kinloch of Monterey.
According to Kinloch, Alvarado's death waa entirely accidental and no charges will be filed against Portenga. An inquest will be held tomorrow or friday.
No arrangements have yet been announced for funeral services.
Published in the Monterey Herald, August 6, 1930.
Crushed under the wheels of a fast moving, heavily laden truck while working on the new Carmel - Pacific Grove Highway in the Del Monte Forest, Pedro Alvarado, 47,was instantly killed this morning.
Alvarado, who lived with his wife and family of six children at 840 Munras Avenue, Monterey, had been employed as a laborer for several years by J, L . Connor, local highway contractor who is building the highway.
With a group of four or five other laborers he was moving from one location to work at another this morning when the heavy truck rolled up from behind, crushing him beneath the wheels just as the cries of his comrades warned him of the truck's approach. None of the group had seen the truck coming and the driver, Stephen Portenga of Seaside, failed to see the workers walking along the road.
According to Constable George Kinloch who investigated the accident, Portenga was driving his truck backward, being unable to turn around in the narrow road, and could only see on one side by leaning out of the cab of the truck. The laborers were walking on the side of the truck that Portenga was unable to see.
The heavy truck crushed Alvarado's body causing him instant death. Fellow workmen, seeing that he had been killed outright, called, Deputy Coroner J. E. Freeman and Constable Kinloch of Monterey.
According to Kinloch, Alvarado's death waa entirely accidental and no charges will be filed against Portenga. An inquest will be held tomorrow or friday.
No arrangements have yet been announced for funeral services.
Published in the Monterey Herald, August 6, 1930.
Worker Killed By Heavy Truck on New Highway
Crushed under the wheels of a fast moving, heavily laden truck while working on the new Carmel - Pacific Grove Highway in the Del Monte Forest, Pedro Alvarado, 47,was instantly killed this morning.
Alvarado, who lived with his wife and family of six children at 840 Munras Avenue, Monterey, had been employed as a laborer for several years by J, L . Connor, local highway contractor who is building the highway.
With a group of four or five other laborers he was moving from one location to work at another this morning when the heavy truck rolled up from behind, crushing him beneath the wheels just as the cries of his comrades warned him of the truck's approach. None of the group had seen the truck coming and the driver, Stephen Portenga of Seaside, failed to see the workers walking along the road.
According to Constable George Kinloch who investigated the accident, Portenga was driving his truck backward, being unable to turn around in the narrow road, and could only see on one side by leaning out of the cab of the truck. The laborers were walking on the side of the truck that Portenga was unable to see.
The heavy truck crushed Alvarado's body causing him instant death. Fellow workmen, seeing that he had been killed outright, called, Deputy Coroner J. E. Freeman and Constable Kinloch of Monterey.
According to Kinloch, Alvarado's death waa entirely accidental and no charges will be filed against Portenga. An inquest will be held tomorrow or friday.
No arrangements have yet been announced for funeral services.
Published in the Monterey Herald, August 6, 1930.
Crushed under the wheels of a fast moving, heavily laden truck while working on the new Carmel - Pacific Grove Highway in the Del Monte Forest, Pedro Alvarado, 47,was instantly killed this morning.
Alvarado, who lived with his wife and family of six children at 840 Munras Avenue, Monterey, had been employed as a laborer for several years by J, L . Connor, local highway contractor who is building the highway.
With a group of four or five other laborers he was moving from one location to work at another this morning when the heavy truck rolled up from behind, crushing him beneath the wheels just as the cries of his comrades warned him of the truck's approach. None of the group had seen the truck coming and the driver, Stephen Portenga of Seaside, failed to see the workers walking along the road.
According to Constable George Kinloch who investigated the accident, Portenga was driving his truck backward, being unable to turn around in the narrow road, and could only see on one side by leaning out of the cab of the truck. The laborers were walking on the side of the truck that Portenga was unable to see.
The heavy truck crushed Alvarado's body causing him instant death. Fellow workmen, seeing that he had been killed outright, called, Deputy Coroner J. E. Freeman and Constable Kinloch of Monterey.
According to Kinloch, Alvarado's death waa entirely accidental and no charges will be filed against Portenga. An inquest will be held tomorrow or friday.
No arrangements have yet been announced for funeral services.
Published in the Monterey Herald, August 6, 1930.
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