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Yet another low-bridge incident!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-fife-11790901
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The advert on the bus is for birthday parties and events, must have been one hell of a present for the man upstairs.
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"The bus was being driven about the capital as part of a launch following a £60,000 revamp of the bus."
Ooopps!! Wimmin drivers eh??:rolleyes::rolleyes: |
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probably thinking what to cook the old man for tea that night.
We had a similar incedent years ago when a female driver hit a vicars car ,she said i was just thinking about georges tea and ....... bang! |
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It might've been moved after the event (eg to help with the rescue efforts) but, that bus is a long way beyond the bridge. If that is were the driver stopped, what speed was he doing?
According to a chap at my first delivery on Monday, there was one in Bolton recently. There is a 12' bridge on the approach to an industrial estate and a foreigner drastically altered the shape of his trailer, trying to get under it. The chap thought that maybe the foreigner had got to the bridge and wasn't capable of reversing out again. Especially given the performance he made of trying in to the loading bay. |
The shape of the future (apparently):- http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...82_934224a.jpg
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Twelve people hospitalized after school bus hits railway bridge in Darlington.
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Quote from The Sun "Driver misjudged the height of the bridge"!
THERE WAS A BLOODY BIG SIGN, TELLING HIM THE HEIGHT OF THE BRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is clearly visivble, in the picture. |
More a question of "Brain Fade" Drivers get used to driving throuh there with single deckers i expect. Lack of cencentration and they forget the upper deck. I have known it to happen in Warwick a few times.
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Again, there is a sign on the bridge: 10'9". Which is pretty marginal for a single decker...
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And another:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-21229913
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11' 9" this time!
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And another one.
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Updated with more photographs:- http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/...ripped-2514586
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I wonder if he was using a SAT-NAV device to find the shortest route back to the depot ?
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Even so, you'd have thought he'd have known the height of his vehicle and that there was not enough clearance.
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The photographs of the bridge approach show the surrounds are marked accordingly:-
http://i1.chroniclelive.co.uk/incomi...PG-2519938.jpg |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yet another!
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A double deck bus is never going to fit, under a 12' 9" bridge!
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It will if you take the wheels off!
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A truck, not a bus.
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