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  • 7 months ago
More than a dozen families are on the brink of being cut off from the rest of Poole Village , Rio Claro due to a landslip.

Over the weekend, a man, unaware of the road condition, drove his vehicle off the edge and down the precipice.

And while he escaped with minor injuries, residents fear the next person may not be so lucky.

When our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh visited the site today residents called on the authorities to move quickly to carry out remedial work.
Transcript
00:00Bigesh Street off Riverside Road, Rio Claro is plagued with multiple treacherous sections.
00:06But there is one location where it has completely collapsed.
00:10The whole road, the whole road from white line to white line, that's gone.
00:17So this part of the road now is people's premises.
00:21So we had to pass there and they tell us don't pass.
00:25But we still pass in because there is no way out.
00:28And this road is one way in, one way out.
00:31Residents have put some material in the yard adjacent to the landslip, allowing some vehicles continued access.
00:38But they fare with inclement weather. It won't last long.
00:42And that means for the 12 families and more than a dozen farmers with cultivated land beyond this point,
00:49being cut off and stranded is a reality they may face very soon.
00:54We said we'll go, we have no way to go.
00:56We'll come out. If you're sick now, you can't come out nowhere. You have to stay in the back there and die.
01:00Yeah, no vehicle. You usually got to just touch you across.
01:03Like somebody big and pack you can carry them across.
01:06Well, the greatest fear is that when this road becomes impassable,
01:10the residents here won't have access to nothing.
01:14They won't be able to come out.
01:15Either they go in, no emergency vehicle will be able to pass here.
01:18Let's say that something happened inside here
01:20and we need assistance from some emergency response.
01:23They say the landslip has existed for around three years
01:30and multiple complaints to the regional corporation have not resulted in repairs,
01:35not even barricades or signage.
01:38Over the weekend, a man unfamiliar with the terrain drove off the roadway and down the precipice.
01:44And he don't know the road really, to be the truth.
01:47And he come in and when the car is there, the car capsized inside.
01:52So when me and my madam hear that from there,
01:56we come out on the road to watch to see what's going on.
01:58I thought it was a tree that fell.
01:59When I come out, I see a car inside.
02:01They shouldn't be waiting for a situation like this to take place and then to act.
02:06And it's only then they come and they put this barricade here, right?
02:11Look, if you notice that they fail, they even have a dangerous landslip ahead here.
02:15Residents of Riverside Road and Environs are now pleading for immediate intervention
02:20by the Ministry of Rural Development and local government
02:24to fix their roadway before something worse occurs.
02:28I will be very thankful.
02:30The villagers will be very thankful for the road to fix.
02:33I would like to call on the Ministry of local government, which is Khadija Amin,
02:38to make sure, come and make sure that something has been done
02:41to this state of this road here and to respond to it in a fast time.
02:48Cindy Raghu Bhantika Singh, TV6 News.
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