A company has been fined $640 for allowing an unsafe heavy vehicle on the road after a trailer came loose from a truck and crashed in Salt Ash last Friday.
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Police and NSW Fire and Rescue were called to Nelson Bay Road at Salt Ash about 1.45pm on June 9 on reports the trailer to a prime mover had dislodged from the vehicle and crashed into the side of the road.
No one was injured.
Officers with the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command’s joint task force responded to the incident, as did Raymond Terrace FRNSW who had been 500 metres down the road responding to a second, unrelated truck incident.
Police said the metal drawbar connecting the trailer to the prime mover in the Salt Ash incident had snapped.
This caused the trailer to dislodge from the truck.
The truck had been travelling south, towards Newcastle, when the trailer dislodged.
The trailer crossed over into the northbound lane before colliding with a fence on the side of the road and coming to a stop in a ditch.
Police issued an infringement notice to the truck company for allowing an unsafe heavy vehicle to be used on the roads.
The RMS was expected to do an inspection after the trailer was recovered from the ditch.
