The northbound truck smashed into the centre median in rainy conditions Tuesday morning at about 5 a.m. on the highway near Spencer Close and McCallum Road
A dump-truck crash on the Trans-Canada Highway in Langford Tuesday morning could have been much worse had it not been for centre medians in the busy roadway, West Shore RCMP say.
West Shore RCMP Cpl. Nancy Saggar said the truck’s impact smashed several medians, pushing them into southbound lanes and scattering concrete chunks and pieces across the highway. The debris field from the impact extended more than 150 metres, said Saggar. “We did not have any fatalities and we only had two vehicles involved, so really if we didn’t have those medians in place it could have been far, far worse,” said Saggar.The crash snarled traffic just as the morning commute was starting and caused long delays while highway crews cleaned up the debris and a heavy tow truck lifted the mangled dump truck off the median. The road didn’t reopen to traffic until about 9:45 a.m.
“We’ve had in that area in particular head-on collisions in the past few years which prompted both the municipal and provincial governments to collaborate and say we need some more medians here.”
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