- Police call on trailer drivers to cease reckless driving
Police in St Vincent and the Grenadines have issued a severe warning to trailer truck drivers to stop reckless driving on the nation’s roads.
Other drivers have expressed concern about how the trailers are being driven, particularly at high speeds.
Parnel Browne, Assistant Superintendent of Police, appeared on WE FM’s Cop Chat broadcast last week, talked about the excessive speeds at which some trailer drivers approach corners while failing to give appropriate notice of their presence via the vehicle’s horn.
“The way these drivers drive these trailers is outrageous. The pace with which these long containers are being transported is ridiculous! I am asking trailer owners and drivers to stop engaging in risky behaviour; businesses will suffer as a result of our legal action; they are too reckless on our roads.”
“The speed at which they approach curves—some of them, 99 percent of them—when they approach these corners, they don’t honk their horn, and they are in the opposite lane, driving as if to say, “You are small, I am large, you must stop for me.” “We will not tolerate this type of behaviour on our roads,” ASP Browne warned.
Browne also appealed to the local businesses that contract the services of these drivers to urge them to drive safely on the nation’s roads.
