Sask. driver's vehicle covered in tar from unmarked highway construction
CTV
A Saskatchewan woman is frustrated because of damage to her vehicle that happened on Highway 51 south of Saskatoon, and she’s having trouble finding out who’s responsible.
A Saskatchewan woman is frustrated because of damage to her vehicle that happened on Highway 51 south of Saskatoon, and she’s having trouble finding out who’s responsible.
Moose Jaw resident Melinda Lee was driving east of Biggar in late August when she approached a construction vehicle, with no signs indicating roadwork was underway.
“I couldn’t see overtop of the hill because there was a construction vehicle parked there and I kind of stopped behind it and the person in the vehicle stuck his hand out and waved me to go past,” Melinda Lee told CTV News.
Lee proceeded on in the direction they gestured. She says both sides of that single lane highway were being repaved, so she drove on the fresh blacktop.
“It’s not my fault that they put tar on both sides of the road, and I had nowhere to drive,” Lee says.
She continued on her journey perplexed by what had happened.
“When I got to Saskatoon and got out of my car, I realized there was tar all over it. It was splashed all over it on all four sides pretty much,” she said.