Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

A traf­fic grid­lock trapped hun­dreds of mo­torists on both car­riage­ways of the Solomon Ho­choy high­way yes­ter­day af­ter a 14-wheel­er con­tain­er truck cap­sized. High­way Pa­trol of­fi­cers as well as of­fi­cers of Macaulay Po­lice Sta­tion at­tempt­ed to take the ad­vice of Works Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er and open up the north­bound car­riage­way as a dual lane. How­ev­er, this in­ten­si­fied the chaos as traf­fic man­age­ment of­fi­cers failed to place signs on the road to warn mo­torists that the north­bound car­riage­way had been trans­formed in­to a sin­gle lane.

The in­ci­dent hap­pened around 12.45 pm when the truck, trans­port­ing two ten-foot con­tain­ers, cap­sized close to the Macaulay Over­pass. By rush hour, traf­fic be­gan pil­ing up from as far as Ch­agua­nas. Po­lice of­fi­cers then de­cid­ed to open up the north­bound car­riage­way to ac­com­mo­date the south­bound mo­torists. By 4.30 pm the con­tain­ers were re­moved. How­ev­er, while the south­bound lane cleared up, the north­bound car­riage­way con­tin­ued to be a traf­fic hor­ror.