RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) I know of a similar one where the marks are just visible on a concrete bridge. The cause was a tipper truck driver forgetting to lower the tip body. Bridge 1 tipper truck 0. Edited December 16, 2019 by PhilJ W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 40 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I know of a similar one where the marks are just visible on a concrete bridge. The cause was a tipper truck driver forgetting to lower the tip body. Bridge 1 tipper truck 0. that just reminds me off the night Middleton jn west went up.on smoke job stopped Rochdale to moston trains coupling up at rochdale and going around the oldham loop to split again at victoria just despatched one such set round yo shaw .when i get a call from. controll job stopped Oldham Mumps due to a bridge bash !!? . a few puzzled moments then word comes through of someone stealing an 18t skip loader and trying to drive under mumps bridge with the skip raised for tipping who lot ended up on its side in the road woth a huge rent in the railings on the bridge which were still there when it was gorn down for the trams 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: I know of a similar one where the marks are just visible on a concrete bridge. The cause was a tipper truck driver forgetting to lower the tip body. Bridge 1 tipper truck 0. Like this? https://youtu.be/P5sowcqMX2I?t=277 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) Removed Link didn't work! Try this one: Edited December 17, 2019 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted December 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 17, 2019 Pleased to see today that the Swaythling Arch has acquired a new warning system, which appeared to have been installed today. Saves me writing to the Council. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 23 hours ago, melmerby said: Removed Link didn't work! Try this one: Guys on the bridge don't look too concerned ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Whitehouse Bridge in Swindon got hit again yesterday for the many-hundredth time. A common theory is that lorry drivers buy car satnavs or use their phone for navigation (HGV satnavs, which are aware of route restrictions, are a lot more expensive). Cheap satnav chooses car route, lorry driver is too dozy to see signs, SMACK! I think the drivers are charged with careless driving but I doubt any lose their licences; they can just plead with the court that they'll lose their job, so the court lets them go on doing what got them into trouble in the first place 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 IIRC Some Control staff at Swindon were trained as Bridge Strike Nominees (BSN), as there was a nearby bridge which was struck repeatedly (presumably Whitehouse as above) and they might well be the closest staff able to re-open the line. I was also a Controller BSN, however this was primarily to make use of the Bridge Strike Camera system fitted at a few vulnerable or remote locations in Scotland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 1 hour ago, rogerzilla said: Whitehouse Bridge in Swindon got hit again yesterday for the many-hundredth time. A common theory is that lorry drivers buy car satnavs or use their phone for navigation (HGV satnavs, which are aware of route restrictions, are a lot more expensive). Cheap satnav chooses car route, lorry driver is too dozy to see signs, SMACK! I think the drivers are charged with careless driving but I doubt any lose their licences; they can just plead with the court that they'll lose their job, so the court lets them go on doing what got them into trouble in the first place this is so acurate got a job this time four years ago with Argos on deliverys first night no one knows where we are going we just have a card with the last mile to each store .manager shoots off into warehouse comes back with 16 garmins for the lorrys wasnt impressed when we pointed out no hight weight or width settings his words "its all we can afford deal with it " which was all fine and good untill the inevitable happen and someone got directed over warburton toll bridge in a 7.5tonne 15ft high lorry oooops 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 9 minutes ago, peanuts said: this is so acurate got a job this time four years ago with Argos on deliverys first night no one knows where we are going we just have a card with the last mile to each store .manager shoots off into warehouse comes back with 16 garmins for the lorrys wasnt impressed when we pointed out no hight weight or width settings his words "its all we can afford deal with it " which was all fine and good untill the inevitable happen and someone got directed over warburton toll bridge in a 7.5tonne 15ft high lorry oooops So what exactly does a lorry cost & how much does an HGV Satnav cost? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 15 minutes ago, johnofwessex said: So what exactly does a lorry cost & how much does an HGV Satnav cost? hgv satnav typicaly around £300-500 lorry £20k plus but i know what you are saying this is saddly how many logistics sorry haulage firms are run managers who have never been behind a wheel hired to run the company as cheaply as possible drivers are just steering wheel attendants to hire and fire on a whim as there is always some desperate mug willing to get the job done without questioning they're instruction .does this sound vaguely familiar to any ex railway staff 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 So peanuts relative to the cost of a truck/driver To say nothing of the cost of a strike 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 2 hours ago, johnofwessex said: So peanuts relative to the cost of a truck/driver To say nothing of the cost of a strike A lot more than the driver keeping their eyes open and paying attention... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 And tonight's bash is:- https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/road-blocked-after-cars-fall-off-transporter-218819/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted December 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2019 10 hours ago, Fat Controller said: And tonight's bash is:- https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/road-blocked-after-cars-fall-off-transporter-218819/ A new take on "fell off the back of a lorry mate". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2019 10 hours ago, Fat Controller said: And tonight's bash is:- https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/road-blocked-after-cars-fall-off-transporter-218819/ OK picture of stationary cop car. Is that all? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dale159 Posted December 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2019 Sorry not a bridge but instead the canopy over the entrance of the A&E department at Ipswich Hospital. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-50855188 Fortunately no one sat there at the time so did not require the short walk inside said Hospital. Dale 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 Damned obvious how it happened - but what on earth was a double-decker doing there anyway ......... does it LOOK like a bus stop ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dale159 Posted December 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2019 24 minutes ago, Wickham Green said: Damned obvious how it happened - but what on earth was a double-decker doing there anyway ......... does it LOOK like a bus stop ? Unless there was one just out of shot behind the photographer? I have been told by a friend I shared the article with that the SAME bus had an almost identical crash in May 2012, only photo I can find is of it being towed away for repair afterwards - https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenquyphotography/8245031973 Dale 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 They really should change the bus routes Lorries becoming wedged under bridges is so common in Swindon (Whitehouse Bridge and Wootton Bassett Road Bridge are both low) that the police have got pretty good at dealing with it. The first thing they do is to let all the air out of the tyres, which usually drops the vehicle by enough to drag it out. Swindon's traffic issues, such as they are, largely stem from the limited number of railway crossings. There are only four GWML road crossings in the town proper (the two above, plus Transfer Bridges and Rodbourne Road, both of which are somewhat taller). And most people seem to live on one side of the line and work on the other! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 34 minutes ago, rogerzilla said: The first thing they do is to let all the air out of the tyres, which usually drops the vehicle by enough to drag it out Do they really?? Ever tried moving a lorry with one flat tyre, never mind all 14 of them* ??!!! I don't think so. " Assuming an Artic, 3-axle Unit (8 tyres) with a 3-axle trailer running super-singles (6 tyres). For the Pedantic, who've probably never even ever sat in a truck, never mind driven one. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, dale159 said: Unless there was one just out of shot behind the photographer? I have been told by a friend I shared the article with that the SAME bus had an almost identical crash in May 2012, only photo I can find is of it being towed away for repair afterwards - https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenquyphotography/8245031973 Dale 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerzilla Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 2 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: Do they really?? Ever tried moving a lorry with one flat tyre, never mind all 14 of them* ??!!! I don't think so. " Assuming an Artic, 3-axle Unit (8 tyres) with a 3-axle trailer running super-singles (6 tyres). For the Pedantic, who've probably never even ever sat in a truck, never mind driven one. They don't drag it out by hand! They use a recovery vehicle unless it's only mildly stuck, in which case partial deflation can grab a couple of inches and it might be able to move clear under its own power. Sometimes they get really, really wedged, like this lorry carrying Lynx. That won't buff out. https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11306860.a-close-shave-for-deodorant-lorry-stuck-under-bridge/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 3 hours ago, rogerzilla said: 5 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: They don't drag it out by hand! They use a recovery vehicle unless it's only mildly stuck, in which case partial deflation can grab a couple of inches Well duh... yeah I didn't think they drag them out by hand either - but even moving one with a Wrecker - or under it's own power, with all the tyres down is a big ask. But now 'partial deflation'... that is rather different to letting "all" the air out the tyres. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2019 4 hours ago, rogerzilla said: Sometimes they get really, really wedged, like this lorry carrying Lynx. That won't buff out. https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11306860.a-close-shave-for-deodorant-lorry-stuck-under-bridge/ Looks like it got deflected to the left by the skew and dragged the tractor off it's wheels. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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