“An accident arrives quickly,” worries the mayor of the landslides, Emmanuel Deschênes, referring to the coast of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive. Heavy trucks that frequent the port road must be checked so as not to risk lives, he puts forward.
Surveillance of heavy vehicles is deficient at the entrance to the region, denounces the mayor Deschênes. “And we don’t even have a scale,” he notes.
In resolution, we cite non-compliance vehicles, the transport of dangerous materials, overloads, mechanical wear and fatigue as risk factors amplified by the suspension and reduction of road controllers’ activities.
Emmanuel Deschênes also denounces the inaction of the government in this file, considering the seriousness of the risk caused.
Recall that on October 13, 1997, a bus accident forever marked the landslides and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive. 44 seniors going to Isle-aux-Coudres had then lost his life in a brutal incident, less than 25 years after the 1974 bus accident which had killed 13 people and injured 24 others, still in the “large coast”.
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