In a video for the CAS solution, SAFEmine, the former police accident investigations and forensics specialist discussed the time he was unknowingly on a life-threatening collision path at the mine.
"I was driving along in a light vehicle and came to an intersection, looked both ways as you do, didn't see anything, so I started to accelerate,” Leggat said in the video.
"SAFEmine CAS went off – alerted me that there was a truck coming – and within a second there was a big [Caterpillar] 793 dump truck coming down on me, so it’s basically saved me."
He recommended that other minesites use systems like SAFEmine.
The 793C has 240 tonnes of carrying capacity.
