WATCH: Two escape injury in Spur Tree crash

MANCHESTER, Jamaica—Police have confirmed that two men narrowly escaped serious injury when a truck overturned off the Spur Tree Hill main road in Manchester Saturday morning.

Police said the driver of a concrete pump truck reported that the unit experienced brake failure while travelling downhill shortly before 10:00 am, resulting in the vehicle going off-road and overturning in a ravine.

The truck driver and a passenger managed to free themselves from the overturned vehicle.

The Spur Tree main road links Mandeville and its environs to St Elizabeth and points west. Heavily laden, slow-moving trucks often hinder traffic on the steep, difficult hill, and there have been a number of fatal crashes involving trucks over the years.

— Kasey Williams

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