Beacon Road heavy truck crashes will continue
I am waiting for one of these monster trucks to have a problem and go tumbling down the hill.
EDITOR – At about 7am on Saturday morning, 23 August, a bread truck came down Beacon Road on the Bluff and crashed near the bottom of the steep hill into a fence and came to stop in the property.
The truck was badly damaged and the driver was injured.
This is the second heavy vehicle that has come down Beacon Hill and crashed this year. A few months ago a big breakdown truck crashed into Grosvenor Boys High School.
A major retailer’s head office has ordered all its trucks including their triple axle horse and trailers to come down Beacon Hill and turn into Norman Road to access their delivery area, instead of trying to turn around at the delivery area or turning into Spanier Marson Road and reversing 300 metres to the delivery area. All delivery trucks are doing this in a narrow suburban road. Cold-drink trucks also one of the main culprits. Red road paint and road signs mean nothing.
I am waiting for one of these monster trucks to have a problem and go tumbling down the hill. It is going to happen.
KEITH DICK
