Woman injured after truck crashes into car and overturns on Spur Tree Hill

MANCHESTER, Jamaica – A woman suffered injuries after her car was reportedly hit by an out-of-control truck on Manchester’s Spur Tree Hill main road on Wednesday afternoon.

Preliminary reports are that the truck, which is assigned to PriceSmart, was traveling downhill with two men on board at about 1:15 p.m. when it struck and overturned a Suzuki Grand Vitara.

The damaged Suzuki Grand Vitara. (Photo: Kasey Williams)

An alleged eyewitness said this Observer online which she saw when the crash occurred.

“I then saw the truck turn over and then it hit the vehicle going up the road (hill). When he crossed the road he went this way and turned around, so actually I see it,” she said.

She added that only the driver of the Vitara was seriously injured.

‘Just the lady in the Vitara. She was spitting blood, so she went to the hospital,” the eyewitness said.

“The men in the truck were not injured,” she added.

She believes the accident-prone Spur Tree Hill road is safe and most accidents there are due to driver error.

“It’s been a while since something like this happened. For me it’s the people driving the vehicle, the road is not dangerous, it’s the people driving the vehicles. The gentleman said he lost his brakes and he never had any control to come this way,” the eyewitness said.

“So it’s all about the driver. The road has nothing to do with it,” she added.

The accident-prone Spur Tree main road connects Mandeville and the surrounding area to St. Elizabeth and points west. Heavily loaded, slow-moving trucks often hinder traffic on the steep, difficult hill, and a number of fatal truck accidents have occurred over the years.

–Kasey Williams