Family's outrage as truck driver claims he blacked out at the wheel before smashing into a grandmother's car and killing her – as he is found guilty of death by dangerous driving The family of a South Australian woman killed in a collision with a truck say the driver's story that he blacked out at the wheel was insulting and wasted their time. Victorian trucker Kenneth Laurence Pillar, 55, has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of 61-year-old Mt Gambier schoolteacher and grandmother Maria Dowdell.
