Tanker overturns in North Terrace
Residents say poor roads are to blame
for accident i in their neighbourhood

By SARAH A.
ZIMMERMAN
RESIDENTS in North Ter-
face are saying they pre-
dicted’ an accident would
happen on one of their
roads — it was just a matter

of time.

The side roads access-
ing residential areas off
Kalum Lake Drive are too
narrow and became slip-
pery, muddy and riddled
with bumps whenever it
tains, says local resident
Gary Carr.

And on Oct. 3 a tanker
truck carrying 8,000 litres
of jet fuel rolled onto its
side as it attempted to get
by an oncoming transport
truck on Dover Road.

It appears the rear
wheels hit the soft shaul-
der causing the tanker to
roll on its side, said fire
chief Randy Smith,

It’s exactly the scenario
Carr said he’s anticipated
for some time.

“{ question if that acci-
dent would have happened
today if the road had been
widened. If he had two
wheels on the pavement it
may have held: on,” he
said,

Carr and other residents
sent a petition to transpor-
tation minister Judith Reid
in August asking that roads
in their area be paved.
They also cautioned the
roads are unsafe.
~ They have yet to hear
back from the minister.

Area transportation
ministry roads manager
Laurie Fulford said the
money to pave the side
roads is simply not avail-
able.

‘I'd-love to pave
everybody's roads
but we just don’t
have the. money." ©

FIREFIGHTERS tr transfer roughly 8,000 litres of jet fuel from this overturned
truck into another tanker before removing the vehicle from the ditch. The tank-
er rolled onto its side on Dover Road in North Terrace as it tried to pass an-
other oncoming transport truck, SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO,

_The comminiy gu

would like to have. pave-
ment,” said Fulford. “From .
a highways point of view:

we are not given the reha-.. -

bilitation. funds needed to
do that work.” -
She said that’s because
there are. other provincial .
and regional priorities that
Supercede the side roads
work,
“That

doesn’t mean

they don’t deserve it,” she _

added. “I’d love to-pave
everybody's roads but: we
just don't have the.
money.”

Fulford said repaving ‘of
Kalum Lake. Road is ten-.
tatively scheduled for 2005: :

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