Hazard to Navigation

[duncanmack]

 

[Sgeir]

Jings, Duncan, not another one of your deliveries to Plean!

Thinking about it, didn't the same thing happen on the same road, going the other way, at Moodiesburn a couple of years back?

 

[MoodySabre]

Crikes!

Many years ago on the A127 coming into Southend, a tipper lorry didn't realise that the back had come up and it hit a pedestrian bridge across the road. The bridge collapsed killing the driver in his cab. The road was blocked for days.

 

[Cornishman]

I bet he's the b*****r that keeps clobbering the Iron Bridge near Bodmin every time he comes down here.

 

[yoty]

Look, the poor chap was just trying to get a better look at the sign! Give him a break.

(I wonder if speed cameras have got Macro lenses?)

 

[Spyro]

How did that happen?

 

[halcyon]

Followed an artic with holiday chalets on the back down the A30, a Peugeot 305 between us. Come to the iron bridge, artic goes through, chalets do not and are deposited on road, front door and porch facing traffic. Peugeot was last seen going through first chalet, and heading for next.

Brian

 

[Aja]

Hydraulics must have been faulty and the tipper went up......Bang!

Donald

 

[DaveS]

Yes indeed - it brought down the gantry, and a couple of years before that there was another at Cumbernauld. That one needed a replacement bridge deck and AFAIK they never did find out who did it.

Of course the all time classic had to be Erskine Bridge incident!

 

[longjohnsadler]

Re: Erskine Bridge incident

Blimey. Was that you?

 

[Aja]

Erskine Bridge

Previous years tide tables....


Donald

 

[Alrob]

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Of course the all time classic had to be Erskine Bridge incident

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that wouldnt have been an oil platform by any chance /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Alrob]

the road still had not reopened at 5.00 pm - looking at pics I would have just dragged it back & im sure it would have come back down /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[DaveS]

Re: Erskine Bridge incident

The only time I've been under the Erskine Bridge was on the Waverley. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

or, in fact, /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif to be more precise.

 

[duncanmack]

That is just the tipping body off a bulk tipper. If you look really carefully you can see the chassis cab/remains of the truck about 250metres down the road.

They are being very careful getting it down as the extent of damage to the overhead gantry is not fully known.

One fatality I understand.

 

[Alrob]

didnt realise there was peeps hurt - sorry didnt mean to be flippant

 

[duncanmack]

Just been informed no one hurt. Fatality was another accident.