Police interrogate runaway truck driver

The driver of the trailer truck which skidded out of control on a narrow, hilly Diego Martin road on Sunday was interviewed yesterday at the West End Police Station. The driver was expected to give a statement on the incident. Head of the Western Division Snr Supt Lennox Gonzales told Newsday that the matter is being treated by the police as a road traffic accident. He added that the brakes of the trailer truck will be examined by licensing officers to determine if the brakes failed.

A report is expected to be compiled by Inspector Scott of the Western End Police Station. Newsday learnt that damage to overhead electricity and telephones lines as well as an electricity pole on Sunday, were estimated at over $200,000. A source from the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission revealed that crewmen worked throughout the night on Sunday to ensure that a supply was restored to residents of St Lucien Road at around 6 am yesterday.

Traffic resumed along the St Lucien Road around 4 am. Owner of the Vale View Project, Gowakan Mahabir, was unavailable for comment on the matter, but residents who live in the vicinity of the Vale View project, where the incident took place, complained bitterly about the difficulties they have been experiencing since the project started. They said they have had to endure mud slides, concrete falling on their homes, the closure of the St Lucien Road, heavy duty trucks turning in their yards and now a runaway heavy duty truck pulling down electricity lines.