AN INQUEST has been opened into the death of a married father-of-three who was fatally injured after falling off a lorry.
Robert Ismay, of Melbourne Place, Sowerby, died after being hit by scaffolding poles from his truck while delivering them to a steel firm in Sheffield.
Paramedics and police were called to the scene, but the 42-year-old lorry driver, who hailed from London, was pronounced dead.
A funeral service was held at St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby, on Tuesday (December 18).
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