Marl truck overturns in morning rush hour

| 07/03/2022 | 53 Comments
Overturned truck, Monday 7 March

(CNS): A marl truck carrying a full load added to Monday morning’s traffic woes when it overturned on North Sound Road close to the Plaza Venetian at around 8:30am. The Blue and Black Western Star Dump Truck and its spilled load blocked both northbound lanes but fortunately, the driver of the truck was uninjured. The National Roads Authority, using heavy equipment, righted the tipped truck and helped the police remove it. The NRA then cleared the road of oil and debris before it reopened.



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  1. nauticalone345 says:

    And was the driver ticketed for careless driving or operating a defective vehicle? These trucks are running about grossly overloaded, spewing black smoke and salty wet marl in the air and on the roads / other vehicles….and we never see the Police pulling them over for even a warning! What could possibly go wring with decades of near no traffic law enforcement?

  2. Anonymous says:

    This is the polices fault. They don’t do anything about anything.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Ban the noisy Jake brakes – no need for them in Cayman.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Jamaican drivers cannot drive. If they are not stopping to talk with their friends in the middle of the street they are overturning and spilling mess causing disruption.

  5. A bit concerned says:

    @PACT can we please get these big trucks off the road during rush hour?? Traffic is bad enough without them!

    • Anonymous says:

      How about banned single person in car at rush hour!

      • Anonymous says:

        Will you come and take me to work, drive me to run errands at lunchtime and back home again or just want to take away my freedom while you keep yours.

        • Anonymous says:

          If the people of Cayman can afford to pay CIG $1,500,000 a day in wages. I’m sure public transport could be rolled out for free.

      • Anonymous says:

        How about families not having several cars per household – not to mention the gigantic gas guzzling monstrosities.

        • Anonymous says:

          The number of cars a person has is totally irrelevant. They can only have one on the road at a time.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Absolute clowns drive these trucks. They’re too busy speeding with overloaded vehicles that would have been condemned in any other country save for a few in Africa and places like Afghanistan.

    The sad thing is, this isn’t a surprise. We’ve seen a constant stream of idiots crash these things. Usually when they’re stricken by the roadside you see the bald tires, defective lights, and some crap slogan on the windshield.

    If you drive one of these, please stop blaring your horn at your other passing muppet friends in dump trucks, and actually drive them with some idea of braking distance, and some consideration of the communities you drive through.

  7. Anonymous says:

    No surprise here, these madmen drive too fast, use illegal jake brakes and overall very very poor drivers with licenses bought in Jamaica. When did anyone last see a cop pull one over?

  8. Anonymous says:

    Way too aggressive dump truck drivers in Cayman. They drive like a bat out of hell and must get paid extra per delivered load.

    • Anonymous says:

      Jamaican cops don’t arrest their own people, that’s wrong, sad and should be weeded out.

      • Anonymous says:

        They come here trigger happy and power hungry fueled by an ego of “making it to Cayman” – root cause of the issue.

  9. Anonymous says:

    Cayman is quickly becoming a laughing stock

  10. Anonymous says:

    At least he spilled his load harmlessly on the roadside. 😉

  11. Anonymous says:

    Is there any health and safety in Cayman?

    Those loads are completely overloaded and illegal, never mind the crazy drivers. No one gives a toss.

  12. Checky says:

    This man should be disqualified from driving.
    These incidents are too frequent and appear to have no repercussions for the driver.

  13. Anonymous says:

    How does a driver over turn his truck on what is essentially a straight section of road? His heavy equipment license should be removed immediately.

    • Anonymous says:

      Ha ha ha……what heavy equipment licence???

    • Anonymous says:

      Having seen the truck when it was righted, it looked to have had either a rear frame/chassis failure or rear axle issue of some type.

      • Anonymous says:

        Yep I would agree, and the truck owner would have known it was defective. Something that rots out like that would have been getting worse for years without being fixed. They should pull the inspection certificates to see who signed this off and charge the owner, until then, no consequences equals no change.

    • Crazy Driving says:

      It is not hard to flip a Truck on it’s side when they are so grossly overloaded. I know you would never get away with being this overloaded anywhere else. In North America you be fined 10s of thousands of dollars for overloading. Let alone most of the Gravel Truck drivers think they driving a formal one race car.

      These guys flipping on straight roads and Traffic circles don’t surprise me. What amazes me is the small vehicles that flip on almost a daily basis on this island.

      • Say it like it is says:

        9.26am You hit the dump truck on the head. The Director of the Port Authority is to blame for this. I drive past the Port Authority twice a day and see the trucks exiting with ever increasing loads now way over the top of the sides of the trucks. Last week one dumped a few barrel loads over the side as it turned on exiting the port!. It was my understanding that the Port was supposed to have a weigh bridge to check the loads, but obviously this is not happening, giving the impression that palms are being greased. This is a matter of public safety which in no circumstances can be compromised by economic gain.

  14. Junior says:

    Dont tell me a jam driver right?

    • Anonymous says:

      Who else, Junior?

      • Anonymous says:

        And the Governor grinned, and the Commissioner said the crime situation was stable. The Ombudsman hired her friend in Canada, and left early. The position of hotel doorman requires 2 years experience, and the DG thinks it is all world class. Yup. No surprises. A shitshow that is now downright dangerous. I fear this is what the tipping point looks like.

    • Anonymous says:

      Ya Mon!

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