An injured motorcyclist and fallen posts along four blocks left a spectacular accident that occurred tonight, around 7:15 p.m., at the intersection of Billinghurst Street with Jorge Basadre Avenue (former Circunvalación) and Collpa Avenue, in the city of Tacna. Witness reports speak of more than 10 poles “lying down” on the runway and others leaning to the point of giving way.
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Neighbors reported that a trailer truck with a Chilean license plate CP KF 58 and a trailer with a license plate JE3136, which was loading two heavy machinery vehicles on its hopper or low bed, entered Billinghurst Street despite being prohibited for the transit of high-tonnage vehicles. .
driver did not stop
Due to its height, it collided with the cables and made the first structures fall. Despite the accident, the driver recklessly continued his journey dragging several poles and leaving a tangle of cables and other structures on public roads.
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As a result of the fallen poles and cables, a motorcyclist was injured and was evacuated to the Hipólito Unanue hospital. A neighbor claimed that the cables even broke a water tank located on the third floor of her home, causing drinking water to flood.