The fire department placed sand in the street to try and absorb the oil.
POLOKWANE – An oil spill in Vermukeliet street between Lood and Emerald street has left the road surface covered in oil.
An oil spill has caused traffic disruptions on Vermikuliet Street.
The truck’s load fell over and off the truck. It is believed that some of the oil containers gave way under the weight collapsing the load and making it fall off the truck.
Polokwane search and rescue teams arrived with buckets of sand to absorb the spill and help combat the road becoming slippery.
The Polokwane Fire Department are currently on the scene of the oil spill.
Traffic on the way to Ladanna is being diverted away either into an open field or into Futura, for their own safety.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard
