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Dump Truck In Flagler’s Dunes Restoration Project Overturns at Varn Park

November 27, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The truck overturned at Varn Park. There were no injuries. (© FlaglerLive)
The truck overturned at Varn Park. There were no injuries. (© FlaglerLive)

A dump truck used in the year-long project to rebuild Flagler County’s dunes along the shore overturned while dumping a load of sand at Varn Park this morning. The driver was shaken up but unhurt.


“We responded but there were no injuries,” Flagler County Fire Chief Don Petito said.

The 42-year-old driver had a minor laceration on the forehead. There was also a small fuel leak, according to the sheriff’s dispatch notes on the incident. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office initially responded to the crash scene, then turned it over to the Florida Highway Patrol, which called in a heavy wrecker. The truck overturned at 10:10 a.m.

Varn Park off State Road A1A north of Flagler Beach, closed weekdays since mid-February, is the staging area for 26 dump trucks that have been making 100-mile round-trips three to four times a day to Gainesville to bring in what will total nearly 800,000 tons of sand that several tracked crawler trucks then redistribute along the shoreline (see the trucks in the image below). The $28 million project is led by Flagler County government’s public works department. Dunes demolished or diminished after hurricanes Matthew and Irma are being rebuilt over 12 of the county’s 18 miles of shoreline.

The driver was dumping the load within the park’s parking area, not on A1A. “He got out on his own, no hazards, we responded just out of precaution,” Fire Rescue’s Richard Bennett, the battalion chief at the incident, said, noting that incidents of the sort are not uncommon at construction sites.

Work began on the project on Jan. 22 at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park and has been progressively moving south since. Vulcan Materials Company contractor is providing the sand from Gainesville and the drivers who truck it in. A crew of about 10 county workers logging some 50 hours a week carries out the work beach-side, dumping 3,000 tons of sand per day and building 14-foot dunes.

“Just glad everyone was ok,” County Administrator Craig Coffey said in a text this evening, saying it was his understanding that there’d not been injuries in connection with the dunes project so far.

The county-operated crawler trucks that dump sand along the shore. (© FlaglerLive)
The county-operated crawler trucks that dump sand along the shore. (© FlaglerLive)

Sand brought in from Gainesville is dumped on this pile, then reloaded for dune-building. (© FlaglerLive)
Sand brought in from Gainesville is dumped on this pile, then reloaded for dune-building. (© FlaglerLive)

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  1. Laura Shaver says

    November 27, 2018 at 4:05 pm

    Do our large truck drivers need training?

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  2. Shirley Hartman says

    November 27, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    My sister and I passed by Varn Park and I said to her…That doesn’t look safe…and here you go..

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  3. gmath55 says

    November 29, 2018 at 9:46 am

    Has nothing to do with training. It was probably an unbalance load. So, upon dumping the load of sand it shifted to one side which caused a force (F=ma= mg) to one side which caused the truck to overturn.

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