Eyre Highway truck crash: Why Neville Mugridge's widow is calling for change ... trends now
A heartbroken widow has broken her silence to call for trucking industry reforms after a horror crash claimed the life of her husband and two other truckies.
Delphine Mugridge's husband Neville, 77, was a much-loved truck driver who lost his life in a fiery head-on smash between his truck and another on South Australia's Eyre Highway on April 4 at the edge of the Nullarbor Plain.
Victorian truck driver Yadwinder Singh Bhatti and another 25-year-old NSW man also died in the crash.
Ms Mugridge has launched a petition calling for truck drivers to have more experience to qualify to pilot big rigs.
'Ultimately I think the best thing would be a traineeship or an apprenticeship,' Ms Mugridge told Nine News.
Delphine Mugridge's husband Neville, 77, was killed two weeks ago in a fiery truck crash on the Eyre Highway
The grieving widow is still struggling to come to terms with what happened to her husband.
'Sometimes I think, 'Oh he's just gonna come home, he's too good a driver',' she said.
'Then other times I realise he isn't coming home.'
Ms Mudgidge described her late husband as a loyal father and grandfather and a legend to other truck drivers.
Nicknamed Slim, he left behind 20 children, stepchildren and grandchildren.
'He was very compassionate,' his wife
