Traffic Once Again Flowing West Of City
Monday, March 23, 2015 @ 7:13 PM
But the westbound lanes of Highway 16 are once again open to traffic after being closed for four hours at Domano Boulevard, after an excavator fell off a trailer as it was being towed and onto the roadway.
Fortunately, RCMP say no one was injured in the incident that occurred at approximately 2:30pm. Emergency personnel did have to deal with clean up of a minor fuel spill.
Comments
What is it going to take to get the City to open up and extend the end of Ospika Blvd? The province and the city need to wake up and do what needs to be done, secondary access from/to the west that allows drivers to miss the Domano/HWY16 intersection.
We’ve had 4 or 5 major events on highway 16 in the last year and half forcing drivers to use residential areas to gain access to the city core. It took me 35 minutes, two school zones and 2 two playground zones to get around the mess. The risk of hitting a pedestrian or child with this kind of traffic is very high.
I hope there were charges for a unsecure load, people could of been killed.
If it was a small contractor, wcb will do nothing. They only bully the companies with money.
Nothing is going to hold an excavator on a trailer once it is flipped. Look at the trailer it is upside down. If it fell off the trailer while just turning the corner is one thing but if the curb was struck – with the high center of mass as it is not a lowbed/lowboy but a highboy trailer – it can tip easier. Does not look like a high speed accident as the trailer is only a few meters past the backhoe.
It was a Hoe Down
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