UPDATE: Truck driver freed after being trapped for two hours in Spur Tree crash
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A truck driver has been hospitalised after he was pinned between two trucks for two hours on Thursday morning.
Firefighters and police extricated the man from the truck he was driving following a three-truck crash on the Spur Tree Hill main road in Manchester.
The crash involved two box trucks and a fuel truck. The collision happened shortly before 9:00 am and left the major roadway impassable for hours.
Preliminary reports are that one of the box trucks was travelling downhill when the driver lost control and crashed into the back of the second box truck. The impact sent the second unit into the back of the fuel truck.
READ: Three-truck collision on Spur Tree Hill
An ambulance arrived on the scene and transported the injured man to the Mandeville Regional Hospital.
The accident-prone Spur Tree main road links Mandeville and its environs to St Elizabeth and points west. Heavily laden, slow-moving trucks often hinder traffic on the steep, difficult hill, and there have been several fatal crashes involving trucks over the years.
The Police have since advised motorists that the Spur Tree main road in Manchester is impassable. Motorists travelling from St Elizabeth to Manchester are being asked to turn right at Gutters to Plouden, travel to Cross Keys then New Port.
Persons travelling from Mandeville to St Elizabeth are being urged to use the route from New Port to Cross Keys, travelling to Plouden, then to Gutters, St Elizabeth.
— Kasey Williams
