Corporal Sutherland Warns Over Dangerous Road Spills

1. “CURRENTLY, THERE ARE NO FORMAL REGULATIONS REQUIRING TRUCK OPERATORS TO STOP AND CLEAR SPILLS. WITNESSES REPORT THAT SPILLS ARE MOST COMMON WHEN TRUCKS TRAVEL UPHILL OR NAVIGATE SHARP BENDS”.

   Now if the police force knows there are NO FORMAL REGULATIONS what should the police force be doing?

   Is it not to speak with who the hell is responsible to get the god-damn regulations in place?

   Why the hell is the police force telling the public there are no regulations? How does that address the issue?

   This country is so damn lost.

2. WHAT THE HELL…! INTERESTING…! …POTENTIAL ROAD HAZARD
   …ONE NEVER CEASED TO AMUSE: AND …NEVER CEASED TO AMAZE.’
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   Clearly not a bad idea to speak to this’ …Potential Road Hazard.’

   Thus, all should give this ‘…EVER TRYING OFFICER CREDIT.’

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   NOW:

   POT HOLES: …RIVER ROADS: …WATER CATCHMENT HOLES: AND …PONDS

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   FORMER DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE (OPERATIONS), JAMES HILL,’ now holding

   (a) ‘…MEMBERSHIP ON THE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC):

   THEN HELD RESPONSIBILITY: for

   (b) ‘…ROAD TRAFFIC:

   (c) …ROAD SAFETY:

   (d) …ROAD MARKINGS: and

   (e) …ERECTION OF ROAD TRAFFIC SIGNS: while

   (f) …THE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER ENSURED THAT THE ‘…APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY,’ WORK TOWARDS ENHANCING ‘ROAD SAFETY BY ADDRESSING THE CONCERNS IN ORDER OF SAFETY: of

   (i) ‘…FIRSTLY, THE PEDESTRIANS: and

   (ii) …THE MOTORISTS.’

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   SURE THE ‘…KNOWLEDGE-BASED RESOURCE AND EXPERIENCES OF THIS HONOURABLE MEMBER OF THE ‘…POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC), COULD BE TAPPED BY ‘…TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER, EVERTON JEFFERS KPM.’

   WHAT THE HELL…!

   ONCE A ‘…TRAFFIC COP, ALWAYS A TRAFFIC COP.’

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   WELL, HE WAS MY ‘…DEPUTY.’ VERY EFFICIENT AND VERY EFFECTIVE.’

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3. It’s a simple matter, these concrete suppliers just come to getter and device a spill clean up rotation cycle between themselves, one month or weeks depending on the amount of businesses, send out someone drive around and note the spills for logistics coordination and send a Backoe to scrape it off the road way in rotational sequence.

4. I have lived in 4 Caribbean countries and North America, I can’t recall in any of those places seeing this amount of concrete on the road from concrete mixer trucks. It’s quite apparent that the trucks are probably being filled to max or over capacity. Some arm of government needs to act quickly to correct this issue. It’s unacceptable and should be rectified forthwith. Roads are resurfaced and as soon as the asphalt is cool down enough for vehicles to use here comes a cement truck littering and destroying the road. Absolutely crazy how nothing has been done to curb that nonsense. Absolutely crazy.

5. Roads like Friars hill rd going up to Errol Court.
   Newfield – going up to Lyon Hill.
   Cedar Valley – going up the hill before the Golf Course.
   All it needs is a Backhoe as Eldread said ; to just scrape it off.

6. Add American road to that list. The concrete always falls in the gutter causing the water to divert into the road and erode it over time. Concrete takes a month to fully harden. That’s more than enough time to scrape it off easily. It’s obvious the trucks are being overfilled.

7. This continues to be an awful and dangerous thing and sadly it is not getting the attention that it deserves. I am sure that most of us have experiences driving behind a cement truck and it is dangerously releasing concrete with stones falling all over. I once had a near miss with at least two stones smashing into the wind shield. Fortunately there wasn’t any damage. We have to do something about this as it is getting worse every day with concrete spillage all over.

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