Large trucks breaking down, getting stuck and blocking up residential roads have become an ever-increasing problem in Durban for fed-up residents and frustrated motorists.
On Mazisi Kunene Road , off Tollgate Bridge, truck incidents have become almost a daily occurrence, with one truck dropping a disintegrated engine and oil onto the road on Thursday. Another truck jack-knifed across the same road last weekend.
She said a meeting with the municipality had been scheduled for August 19 to address the trucking issues.“Residents want roads and signage indicating trucks cannot enter residential spaces. In some places there isn’t any signage, or if there is, truckers are ignoring it and proceeding into residential spaces.
Coalition member and Glenwood resident Brain Ashe said that whether trucks were taking suburban roads inadvertently because of GPS directions, or deliberately trying to take a short-cut to the port, the truck congestion in suburbs was getting worse by the day. Professor David Mcquoid-Mason, who heads up the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal said eThekwini department officials, SAPS and eThekwini Metro police may be held “civilly and criminally liable for negligently allowing large trucks to use narrow, hilly and steep suburban roads”.
“For nearly a century, the courts have held that municipalities that harm persons or property by negligently introducing a new source of danger may be held liable for any damage caused as a result. Likewise for nearly half a century, the courts have held that police officers who negligently or intentionally fail to prevent a crime committed in their presence, may be held liable for any damages that result.
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