Tractor Trailer Truck Pulls Down Utility Pole
[Updated] Traffic is being diverted after a tractor trailer truck pulled down a utility pole in the Dundonald Street, Brunswick Street area.
A police spokesperson said, “It appears that a tractor trailer truck has pulled down a utility pole in the Dundonald Street, Brunswick Street Pembroke area.
“There are no reported injuries and BELCO personnel are currently on scene. Traffic is being diverted in the area until further notice.”
Update 11.40am: A spokesperson said, “The City of Hamilton advises that a tractor trailer carrying BELCO equipment has pulled down overhead cabling infrastructure at the junction of Dundonald and Brunswick Streets.
“Police, Corporation of Hamilton, BELCO, Digicel/BTC and One Communications are on site to assess the damage and what the effect is to businesses in the immediate area.
“The Corporation has provided barricades and closed off access for motor vehicles to the area. There is no access to Dundonald Street from Court Street, no access heading north on Brunswick Street from Church Street and there is a detour in place at the junction of Dundonald and Parliament Street.
“Motorists are encouraged to plan alternate routes and avoid the area as the junction is estimated to be closed for the majority of the day, with a hopeful reopening by 4pm, subject to the damage assessment.”
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must be an expert driver
Assuming the load was within height restrictions, BELCO/Digicel/ONE is at fault.
Most of the problems are the cable vision cables , there’s tend to hang lower..also a lowboy trailer would have lowered the height a great distance..novice drivers.
Well we are on the topics of tractor accidents! Its only going to be a matter of time before there is a more serious accident with those tractor trailers. Especially along pitts bay road, they are like taxi driver think they own the road.
Even Ray Charles could see that load was too high.
How ironic is that it was carrying Belco equipment?
why so many hands in pockets lemmy work belco too
What is the minimum height that utility wires are supposed to be? 13’6″? 15′?
The machine in the gondola is considerably higher than the gondola. Surely the driver must have noticed this when he picked up the load.
When you drive an extra tall vehicle you drive with one eye on the road & the other looking up for wires.