{"id":20295,"date":"2021-03-16T22:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2021-03-16T22:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:59:40","slug":"road-debris-causes-traffic-headache-reminder-from-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=20295","title":{"rendered":"Road debris causes traffic headache, reminder from RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;113&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> East Hants RCMP wants to remind dump truck operators they can be charged for an insecure load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reminder comes after a dump truck lost a portion of its load at the lights by the Elmsdale Shopping Plaza on Hwy 214 on March 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said East Hants RCMP received numerous calls to the road hazard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe debris required vehicles to drive around it,\u201d he said in a police brief sent in as part of his weekly From the Cruiser column. \u201cWork crews quickly descended on the mess and cleaned it up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wanted to remind drivers it\u2019s a chargeable offence under the Motor Vehicle Act to operate a vehicle with an insecure load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDrivers can be fined in Nova Scotia if something being transported falls from their vehicle,\u201d he said. \u201cAlways make sure your load is well secured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The displaced load was quickly cleaned up and motorists went about their day without any further avoidance in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;96&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;113&#8243;] ELMSDALE: East Hants RCMP wants to remind dump truck operators they can be charged for an insecure load. The reminder comes after a dump truck lost a portion of its load at the lights by the Elmsdale Shopping Plaza on Hwy 214 on March 16. S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said East Hants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[986,1913,14],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-elmsdale","tag-insecure-loads","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}