Video: Truck cants off harbour bridge, stalls traffic for 90 minutes

The truck being lifted by a crane from John Fernandes Limited.

Traffic on the Demerara Harbour Bridge was this afternoon stalled for an hour and a half after a truck, GHH 2756, canted over the edge of the east- west thoroughfare at the retractor span.

The truck being lifted by a crane from John Fernandes Limited.
The truck being lifted by a crane from John Fernandes Limited.

General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Rawlston Adams told reporters that the truck was heading in a westerly direction on the bridge, when its front and back wheels on the left hand side slipped over the edge.

The driver exited the truck and fled