Container Overturns In Blue Hole Hill Area
Police are on scene directing traffic in the Blue Hole Hill area in the east end after a container overturned this morning [Aug 31]. Details are what exactly transpired are unclear at this time, however we will update with additional information as able.
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an incident like this has been on the cards for a long time,
these trucks do not belong on Bermuda’s roads.
Get rid of them,use smaller flat bed trucks!
this time it appears no one was hurt or killed.
Would you really suggest breaking down a container at the dock to put on multiple small trucks to take them to Hamilton Parish. That would be a waste of manpower, money, time, diesel, and space as the docks would need additional yardage to handle the operation. Imagine how much more every good that you purchase would cost.
Eighteen Wheelers are not a problem when driven competently. Moreover this appears to have happened to a parked trailer which was not on the road at the time of the incident.
I agree that these trucks probablly don’t belong on our roads, but frankly I believe the people who drive these trucks are the best drivers on the island. It amazes me how they manoeuvre them in tight spaces without causing any damage and rarely accidents.
By the looks, the cab wasn’t attached to the container at the time, so it’d be interesting to learn what did take it over.
I have no problem with the drivers of these vehicles. They negotiate narrow roads beautifully to the warehouses at Mill’s Creek.
Whether heavy vehicles should be on the roads, or where the containers are parked elsewhere, probably should be reviewed.
The drivers of the wide construction related vehicles who travel at speed with disregard for overhanging trees and other road users IMHO need to slow down. Many times the advance car seems to be operated by a looney tune, speeding, making odd gestures, and only considerably later a heavy construction vehicle appears. Slow down guys, you may drive your private car like a bat out of hell, no need to run heavy construction vehicles well above the speed limit.
if you check out the surface of parking area, you will see the ground gave way under the landing legs causing the front heavy container to flip over.
What are you talking about? Are you just one of those who are terrified of these trucks so you do not want them here. If you are scared of these, than you must be scared of the new buses because they take up more of he road than these trucks.
From the picture, the container chassis feet are down and im sure the container was loaded with bulk items causing it to be heavy. It broke through the asphault and turned over. Obviously this is avoidable and someone may have still been injured. But it was not caused by the drivers wrecklessness. No truck was attached so i find it hard to support your statement to get rid of Tractor heads. Just a point to think about; how much more would our groceries cost without these trucks. I never want to know!
You seem to have missed a couple of things, firstly like the container wasn’t on the road, it was in the businesses parking lot. Next, these containers are part of the global standardized, this is for ease and efficiency on loading/unloading and cost of global goods transport, should we see the need to switch to an alternative on the island, the additional cost of having to unload every container at port would drive the cost of goods higher than they already are now. Lastly, you are somewhat correct in that this may have been in the cards for a long time, but it has nothing to do with our roads. I took notice of the incident when I drove by earlier and it is not uncommon for the business to halt their containers there for unloading, but what I noticed earlier and what the pictures show, is that there is a hole under one of the struts that holds the truck end of the container platform when the truck is out, indicating that the asphalt there had given way. Should the business wish to continue parking containers there in such a fashion, they should be made sure to provide an appropriately built platform for it.
Trucks been on the roads for a long time!!reason it turned over was the ground giving way under front legs of trailer, nothing to do with the size of the truck, but perhaps a little fault on the driver for not choosing a safer spot…
Appears the load or whatever was left of it was left to one side.
Shear laziness to re-distribute the load to make it more balanced.
Imagine walking by and………………..
Can trucks like this be used on Sundays? There used to be restrictions, but I’m not sure if that changed.
Some drivers of these vehicles have very reckless driving habits. On many occasions I have been virtually run off the roads by one of these vehicles.
Something needs to be done sooner rather than later before somebody gets killed.
well YOU need to pay attention…just because you drive at 30kph doesn’t make YOU a good driver.
You’ve been run off the road many times how come you are still here.(must be a cat.)
Do you even look or read before you post?
Pretty easy to see what happened & it had nothing to do with driving & everything to do with weight & a surface not packed enough to take the weight.
Look at where the tarmac is collapsed where the left landing leg was! All that weight facing downhill, even more tranferred onto the legs as the container is unloaded, nothing under the legs to spread the weight. A recipe for what happened. Lucky nothing was next to it.
No accident at all. Human error. Completely avoidable.
HIt was only a matter of time! Have observed poor driving habits and chances being taken on several occasions.
@ Powers that be: please look into the operation of these trucks on our roads. Drivers should be expert, tested and be prepared to follow the rules of the road set up for their operation. Let’s nip this in the bud before someone gets killed.
you are an utter fool.
lol
Something needs to be done about people like YOU who hug the center line….CROSS the line on corners and imagine that your car is some HUGE BUS.
Just for your info Tractor Trailer drivers have the largest vehicles and the lowest accident rates.
I mainly drive heavy truck and have been hit many times by cars strandling the line, not using mirrors, looking left while turning right etc.but NEVER a tractor trailer.
Glad no-one was hurt!
Most sensible comment by FAR!
Don’t seem like those goods will be either ” fresh ” or “new ” being turned upside down in that container. Damaged goods discount perhaps?
Next time park the rig further in the parking lot, might be a little more work in distance to get the goods to the door but safety first!
They just need to slow the hell down!
What story did YOU read because it weren’t this one …geesh man
Transformer, if you think that, then I suggest you offer to carry anything that comes in a container on your back, island wide. In other words, don’t talk so stupid, accidents happen, even the little car or bike that you may have. Do we all say get rid of them too. Be real.
so tell me as you are so wise and I’m so stupid,how did goods get to the stores before these rigs were allowed into Bermuda.
( Don’t bother,I already know the answer!)
Transformer, think before you talk. How many BIG stores and warehouses, large businesses and bulk supplies did we have before containers were introduced?
Leave the logistics and town planning to qualified people who can see the whole picture.
By the way, tractor trailer drivers have the lowest accident rate on the road.(mainly because unlike MOST car drivers they drive on the extreme left and don’t cross the center line).
If you stick left (like you are supposed to) start using your mirrors and stop driving a small car as if it needed the room of a large boat, trucks and such would not bother you at all.
Hee,hee, hee,…. i must laugh at all the DUMB comments on here made by allegedly sensible adults.
No vehicle in sight, so i don’t know why people talking about the drivers and the damned trucks!
Ironically most people say anybody can be a truck driver or warehouse person,… indeed they are considered low skills jobs.
Just from the comments on here alone, one can see that is highly inaccurate and most people would not make the grade if they were properly assesesed.
The pictures of the incident take it to a next level.
Time to stop looking down our noses at professions and raise standards.
First error committed: parking a loaded container with the landing gear on the downhill angle. It puts 25 to 30 tons (50,000 to 60,000 lbs) of weight on the gear often causing one or both to compact the ground beneath them.
If one leg compacts the ground, then the container could tip onto that side due to gravity alone.
If two legs compact the ground,then the container and chassis could stand on it’s front end.
Either is unsafe and not good. However it should not be taken for granted that untrained folk would know such things.
The unloading method had everything to do with the final outcome. Someone decided that they could unload a container. It takes no special thought and skill… anyone could just do it. Hence we have this container being offloaded completely on one side, and our geniuses not realizing that they left 25,000 lbs or more supported by a single landing gear.
Their actions cpulď very well have caused their own injury.
CONTAINER WAS DISCHARGED WRONG NO SAFETY JACK,S THEY ONLY WORKED ONE SIDE
SO THEREFORE THE CONTAINER FLIPPED ON IT,S SIDE.
NOTHING WRONG WITH THE TRUCK OR DRIVER.
You are so wrong it isn’t even funny. The ground gave way under one of the legs. As a driver who has parked several containers in that very spot there is no way to tell what the earth is like under the asphalt…ppl and their senseless comments smh
Man a lot of your guys are on drugs or just talking sheet.
This has nothing to do with Cabs that haul containers.
Nothing to do with drivers.
I need a rum.
Dislike all you want. Read what you wrote.
Something needs to be done about people like YOU who hug the center line….CROSS the line on corners and imagine that your car is some HUGE BUS.
Just for your info Tractor Trailer drivers have the largest vehicles and the lowest accident rates.
I mainly drive heavy truck and have been hit many times by cars strandling the line, not using mirrors, looking left while turning right etc.but NEVER a tractor trailer.
A jack under the kingpin box would have prevented this. Put it there as soon as the truck is unhitched. Remove it after the load is discharged.
Which trucking company is responsible?
Just amazed at the assumptions being made. Just because whatever was left in the container is shown on one side doesn’t mean that is how it was being unloaded…the container is on its side so the goods have been moved. Container was parked…not moving…no fault to driver. Asphalt gave away…could be from incorrect weight distribution or the road could have just given way. Point being…ACCIDENT!!! Just thankful no one was hurt.
It is great that we have so many experts to call upon.
How about solving our economic problems while you are at it .
I think this fits under category of accident, they do not happen intentionally and sometimes unavoidable… People are hilarious, some of these trollers are not quite reading the articles and commenting as if on a jury…lmao,they must get a lot of exercise,.. jumping to conclusions,running of on opinions,hurling accusations,…slim bunch all around,hahaha….
Completely avoidable. Container was parked wrong….lack of safety equipment…and container was offloaded in the wrong sequence.
People think that just anybody can do these sorts of jobs, and now you all get to see that there are lots of important technical skills involved. (Or as in this case the result of not having them).
“container was offloaded in the wrong sequence”
Oh Really! How would you propose to offload goods that are in the front of the container first????
Never had a day of working in a warehouse or offloading containers have you?
Oh, & BTW, yes I have. Some years of working for Purvis Ltd, where the BGA warehouse is, offloading anything from cornflakes to 100# bags of flour.
Without these Big Trucks that can take Big Containers loads – packed with the consumer goods we use the
price of many basic items we purchase would be double the price.
I heard no public complaints before this incident – sounds like somthing has to happen before we complain about somthing.
The Large Trucks,’ as much as they are an eyesore and potential danger that they have there place in the economic’s
viability of Bermuda.— ask any Store owner who has to rely on there services.
Looks like the “driver” screwed-up big time!!! Try driving an 18 wheeler (big rig) in the states…. Those little trucks in BDA are “toys”!!!
Perhaps you should try driving a large vehicle sometime. The Bermuda tractor drivers deserve an awful lot of respect. They may not be anywhere near as long as the tractors hauling 53′ trailers elsewhere but what they do is done in much more confined spaces. Most Bermuda drivers do not have the slightest idea of what is involved with driving a large vehicle.
Oh, & yes, I do know something about it. Over 130,000 miles driving an articulated vehicle 55′ long. That is considerably longer than the container vehicles here.
This incident has nothing to do with the tractor driver & everything to do with a heavy load, facing downhill, soft ground & weight not spread across that ground.
I did for a year over 48 states (TRISM) out of Joplin MO – so I KNOW what is involved Drifter – if that remark was directed at me!!!
I have never herd so much BS .
every one is a pro.
nothing to do with truck. Unload sequence or any of those guesses.
in my 30 years experience the shop owner should ensure that the container on the chassis is safe for his staff to off load especially when the load is heavy.
my guess is that the excess.rain we have had has eroaded the ground under the tarmac unbeknown to anyone.
The driver does not know the condition under the tarmac but can make the reciever aware of the possibilties that may lie ahead.
I have seen jack stands that I personally placed under the goosneck also sink into the ground if the ground is vergin to that sort of weight.
I.would always suggest a solid peace of lumber 12 inches wide and 7 to 8ft in length placed under the padson the landing gear so the weight is spread better.
and you’re here commenting on..??? do u even know what were talking about ??
The ship was late due to bad weather and arrived late last night. The COH allowed the docks to open 8am to 12pm today for bussineses to get there containers as the boat is 3 days off schedual and they need there goods to sell to us. The trailer feet gave way as the ashfelt gave way.This was done all legal.