A lorry carrying a massive piece of boat equipment overturned in Peterhead at the weekend, causing delays and road closures.
The lorry was carrying a 120-tonne reel through Peterhead’s harbour on Saturday afternoon when it suddenly overturned, spilling its load onto the road.
Police were called to scene and closed the road shortly after 2pm, while cordoning off Greenhill Road near the Castlehill junction.
A spokeswoman for the force confirmed there were no injuries, but, due to the size of the lorry, the road closed for most of the afternoon.
Recovery vehicles finally arrived at the scene about 4pm to move the vehicle on.
However, the massive reel it was carrying was still on the road last night. And passing motorists slowed throughout the day as they looked at the huge piece of machinery.
Barricades were set up around the gear to keep pedestrians back.
Last night, the town’s Trawlermen star, Jimmy Buchan, who appeared on the BBC television show with his boat, Amity II, said the reel looked to have come from a boat in the oil industry.
He said: “It’s much bigger than anything we would use in the fishing industry.
“It looks like it’s come from an oil-related boat.”
It is not the first lorry to overturn in the town recently. Last year, a vehicle landed on its side near McDonald’s, south of Peterhead, blocking the road.
The driver escaped injury, but eye-witnesses described a deafening boom as offshore supplies smashed onto the tarmac.
And in 2014, a major clean-up operation had to be launched in the port’s town centre when a lorry carrying fish guts overturned on Kirk Street at the South Road roundabout.
Eleven tonnes of sewage was spilled across homeowners’ front gardens and the pavements.
The driver of the lorry escaped with only minor injuries.
