Rising Bollards
 

Bus passengers were injured when their vehicle hit a rising traffic bollard in Manchester city centre.

The Metro Shuttle was driving over the lowered bollard in St Mary's Gate when the barrier suddenly rose up again and hit the front of the bus. The 11 passengers were thrown forward by the impact.

The rising bollards are designed to allow access to buses, taxis and other public vehicles by use of an automatic sensor which lowers the barrier when they approach.

It'll be interesting to know the cause - was the driver trying to 'run' the system or was it a system fault?

It seems these bollards cause a good number of accidents, some of these are described on this link -

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a23_1227621243

To see what damage these things can do go to -

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYl3ecihEY

Government guidelines suggest that rising bollards breach official safety rules. Several thousand accidents and injuries have occurred since they were introduced 14 years ago into UK city centres.

Even the AA get it wrong -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/video/index....el=My%20Mirror

"You can't jack that car up in the shopping precinct".

" Ah, but I know a man who can". Lol