Waste company Cleanaway has been fined $1.1 million after South Australia’s Supreme Court found the company failed to properly train and assess a driver involved in the 2014 South Eastern Freeway truck crash in Adelaide. The runaway sewage truck reached almost 152 km/h before slamming into vehicles at the base of the freeway, killing Thomas Spiess and Jacqueline Byrne and injuring others, including driver Darren Hicks. The court ruled Cleanaway failed to recognise the driver’s inexperience with manual heavy vehicles and the steep freeway descent. The penalty is the largest imposed under federal workplace health and safety laws in Australia.