THERE was massive disruption on the South Gippsland Highway, outbound at the Koo Wee Rup roundabout last Friday afternoon and evening, after a B Double stockfeed truck tipped over on the eastern side of the intersection.
Importantly, there have been reports that the driver escaped without injury.
Traffic was banked up for hours while the scene was cleared, prompting another conversation online about the suitability of two-lane roundabouts for B Double trucks, the camber of their construction, the speed that trucks travel at on the route, and the increasing number of trucks on the already busy highway.
Here are some of the comments posted after a picture was posted on the Lang Lang Community Noticeboard with the following comment:
“There’s a truck having a nap at the Koo Wee Rup roundabout. Try not to wake him he’s having a good snooze.”
Another post was a little more sensitive:
“Driver ok and out of vehicle.”
Here are some of the comments about trucks on the highway and suitability of the roundabouts:
“They made these roundabouts with a stupid camber.”
“Some of the truck also go ridiculously fast through there.”
“That road takes a lot of cattle trucks. If the camber is bad then there’s a high price to be paid by man and beast.”
Meanwhile, discussion also rages about the number of gravel trucks on the Bass and South Gippsland highways, many of them carting sand for the Melbourne construction sector from the Grantville quarries.
