Lucky escape for lorry driver and other motorists as lorry brakes fail on Fonsalía spur road

[Janet]

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A lorry driver had a lucky escape this morning when his lorry overturned after its brakes failed on approaching the end of the TF1 spur near Fonsalía. Traffic on the main road between Alcalá and Playa San Juan came to a standstill, though emergency services and road teams got the incident cleared and drivers moving again fairly quickly. The lorry driver himself was taken to hospital with head and back injuries which are thankfully said not to be serious. It could have been far worse given how steep the end of the motorway spur is, and if the driver hadn't been so skilful: it appears that he deliberately drove into the ascending lane to turn the lorry in the centre of the roundabout itself.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

That brings up a question I have every time I drive down that road.  Very near the bottom there is one of those emergency lanes just for such an occasion, and it is blocked off by bollards.  I wonder why that is?  And in this case I wonder why he didn't just plow through them.  He is very lucky not to have taken somebody out in that accident. 

[Perikles]

That brings up a question I have every time I drive down that road.  Very near the bottom there is one of those emergency lanes just for such an occasion, and it is blocked off by bollards.  I wonder why that is?  And in this case I wonder why he didn't just plow through them.  He is very lucky not to have taken somebody out in that accident.

He crashed before reaching the spur! (Edit: no he didn't)

[Michael]

We passed through there this afternoon. They'd got him back onto his wheels by that time.

[Marion]

I'd be fairly sure the bollards would collapse easily. The side road will be made of something that any vehicle would sink into to stop it. They have the bollards there to stop people thinking it is there for them to park in to admire the view and get stuck up to their axles.