By JESSE GRAHAM
AN EXCAVATOR was looking worse-for-wear after slipping off the side of a truck on Friday morning in Healesville.
About 10am on Friday 22 January, the excavator was being driven onto the back of a truck on Mt Riddell Road in Healesville, when it slipped off the wet surface.
Yarra Ranges Highway Patrol officers were called out to the scene shortly before 11am and the road briefly closed to traffic while the excavator was pulled back onto its tracks.
Leading Senior Constable Chad Bullock said the wet surface on the back of the truck, with wet clay on the tread of the excavator, made it hard for the driver to manoeuvre the machine.
“He was manoeuvring it slightly to get it on, and it just managed to slide off – maybe because of the camber of the road … and dropped onto its side,” he said.
“Everyone’s fine, nobody’s injured.
“We’ll put it down to wet weather.”
A towing company managed to get the machinery upright about 11.10am, looking bent in places, but overall intact.
Healesville and the Yarra Valley were hit by rain earlier in the day, with more rain and potential thunderstorms in the evening.
