Video: Mum of boy, 11, killed by scaffold plank supports road policing campaign

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Three years after an 11-year-old boy was killed by an unsecured scaffold plank in East Sussex, his mother has joined forces with the police to explain, educate and enforce legislation around load security. Video by Sussex Police

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00:00Harry's my son. We lost him two and a half years ago due to an insecure load.

00:07The load came off the truck through our windscreen. It wasn't intentional.

00:12The accident happened and it didn't have to happen. It's through somebody's laziness really,

00:17but Harry's no longer here. I need to share that message to make sure people, when they're going

00:22on the road, that they take that extra time to make sure their loads are secure so it doesn't

00:26happen again. Operation rule was basically brought in to target specifically insecure loads and the

00:32risks that they have to road users within Sussex and Surrey. Because of the tragic circumstances

00:37that we see on a daily basis on the roads, we are having to have this engagement. The police aren't

00:42making these rules up just to inconvenience their day. We're here as a result of a fatality.

00:48You need to live with that every day for the rest of your life that you've killed somebody. All the

00:53things they had to look forward to and the difference they're going to make to other people's lives.

00:56That has now ended. None of that is going to happen. As well as that, you've got their family.

01:02Our life has been shattered into a million pieces and we don't even know how to start

01:06picking those pieces up. Say we lost him through something preventable. I need to be his voice,

01:12shouting, shouting for him.

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