DELAYS OF UP TO 2 HOURS CAUSED BY TRUCK CRASH AT PRIORY
PRIORY, St Ann; April 24, 2025
Motorists, especially taxi and bus operators, have been complaining bitterly about extended delays along the North Coast Highway, resulting from a truck that overturned before dawn on Thursday, April 24.
Operators of tour buses and vehicles transporting passengers to the airport in Montego Bay say people have missed their flights and their tours because of the delays.
Some motorists told the North Coast Times they were taking up to two hours in traffic to get past where the truck overturned near the traffic light-regulated intersection (with the road to Bamboo) at Priory.
“Is how police caahn clear this who day now?” A taxi operator who plies the St Ann’s Bay to Discovery Bay Route asked a North Coast Times reporter. The driver said he had done two trips up to 2 p.m. rather than the six or seven he’s accustomed to doing.
At early afternoon, the lines extended three miles in either direction going east to the roundabout at Mammee Bay and West to Llandovery.
(Traffic backed up to Drax Hall roundabout, more than three miles away, at 1:45 on Thursday)
Police issued a statement after 10:30 Thursday morning advising “the motoring public travelling to and from St Ann’s Bay via Runaway Bay to expect delays along the Priory main road in St Ann due to an overturned truck along the roadway.”
But delays were being experienced by motorists travelling in both directions along the roadway, part of the North Coast Highway.
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