Even so, you'd have thought he'd have known the height of his vehicle and that there was not enough clearance.

The photographs of the bridge approach show the surrounds are marked accordingly:-
http://i1.chroniclelive.co.uk/incomi...PG-2519938.jpg

12' 9" according to the sign. Lots of "Wasp" stripes, as a warning.

http://goo.gl/maps/SnRuS

A driver from a previous company gut stuck under a bridge heading into Stirling a while back. When the police asked him what happened he told them he was delivering a bridge and ran out of fuel.

:D:D I love that one!!:D:D

The old ones are the best ones.

I wonder if anyone ever has actually said that, to Plod and, what the reply was.:D

I was on shift that night and he was telling us that's exactly what he said - or so he told us. Got charged and was sacked by the company on the spot. £600 call-out and £60 a minute for a structural engineer to go out and do a report. That was about 8 years ago.

A mate of mine works on the railway and, he tells me that insurance claims, by the railway, of £0.5m are not unheard of. Not only is there the claim for the structural engineer but, there are delay/cancellation costs too.
At the very least trains will be subject to a speed limit (possibly as low as 5mph), until the bridge is declared safe. However, they have to be stopped, at the signal before the bridge, and told what is happening. For a train that, maybe, could be doing anything up to 125mph that is a lot of "delay minutes" attributable to the bridge striker's insurance company.

Another one bites the dust.
 

Yet another!