Man dies on road as he came to woman’s rescue

Geoffrey Clark

Geoffrey Clark, tow truck business owner killed on the Hume Highway while helping a broken down motorist. Picture: Facebook
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EVERY time a stranded motorist would call him for help, Geoffrey Clark would drop everything and race to their aid.


The towtruck company owner and father-of-four was doing exactly that yesterday when he and a female motorist he was helping were run down and killed instantly.

Mr Clark, who operated Highlander Towing, was attending to a broken down Ford sedan in a lane of the Hume Highway at Mittagong in New South Wales when he was hit by a truck.

The truck driver, from Barnetts courier company, was taken to hospital with shock.

Distraught employees and friends last night said Mr Clark was a “one in a million” boss who never said no.

“He’d happily go out to help someone in the middle of the night, that’s Geoff,” one employee said. “He was always ready to help, no matter who they were.”

Mr Clark got the desperate call from the woman, whose car overheated and broke down on the highway, just after midday.

With his newly purchased tow truck, part of a fleet of vehicles he owned, Mr Clark rushed to help.

Crash investigators were last night trying to work out how the truck failed to see the woman’s maroon-coloured car and Mr Clark’s truck on the side of the road.

It is believed Mr Clark and the woman were standing on the roadside of their parked vehicles when they were hit.

Police said the truck “cleaned up” the two people, before coming to rest a short distance along the road.

“What chance would anyone have when a truck doing at least 100km/h comes at them,” a police spokesman said.

The tow truck had been tipped in readiness to pull the broken down car on to its tray just before the accident.

“We know she called for help after breaking down about an hour earlier . . . they were working on the car, we suppose, when the truck has hit them,” the police spokesman said.

Another one of Mr Clark’s employees described him as a “top boss” who did the best by everyone.

“This is just tragic … we are all speechless, this shouldn’t have happened to someone as decent as Geoff,” the employee said.

Police urged witnesses to the accident to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

It was the same fatal stretch of the highway which last month claimed the lives of three members of the Logan family in another tragic truck accident.

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