11 Apr 2017

Police name man killed by truck in Queenstown

9:45 pm on 11 April 2017

A man who died after a truck pinned him against a wall at a construction site near Queenstown yesterday was an American citizen.

Phillip Anderson Loving, 63, who lived in the Queenstown area, was working on a septic tank at Closeburn Station yesterday afternoon when the accident happened.

A 19-year-old man who was also trapped was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital with critical injuries.