How did he expect that to fit?

How did he expect that to fit?

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matchmaker

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8,462 posts

199 months

RB Will

9,662 posts

239 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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2 o the railway bridges here in swindon are still regularly hit despite warning signs etc

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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snot a JCB neever

Coldfuse

518 posts

193 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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I can imagine some people genuinely forget how tall their truck is...

Bit silly though either way.

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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That shiny bit of the arm shouldn't be that shape, should it?

t400ble

1,804 posts

120 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Nope, its a hydraulic ram

djfaulkner

1,103 posts

217 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Could of been worse.

A bridge in Doncaster collapsed after a crane hit it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshi...




DIW35

4,145 posts

199 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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You would be surprised at how regularly railway bridges get struck by lorries, especially if the driver is just blindly following a sat nav direction and not paying sufficient attention to road signs.

Tidybeard

539 posts

188 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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This happens quite a lot near me. There's an A road which narrows considerably to go under an aqueduct with a maximum height of 3m. There are signposts everywhere within about 3 miles of the low bridge but almost every day a lorry assumes it won't apply to them and discovers it's about a metre too tall.

Cue the reversing lights going on and an artic attempting to reverse half a mile up a single carriageway NSL speed limit road into several dozen cars at a standstill behind it....

All the locals (me included) use another route now driving

dudleybloke

19,717 posts

185 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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This one got hit that often they put huge sections of steel pipe up to protect the bridge.

Disastrous

10,072 posts

216 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Maybe he thought it would fit?

Tidybeard

539 posts

188 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Tidybeard said:
This happens quite a lot near me. There's an A road which narrows considerably to go under an aqueduct with a maximum height of 3m. There are signposts everywhere within about 3 miles of the low bridge but almost every day a lorry assumes it won't apply to them and discovers it's about a metre too tall.

Cue the reversing lights going on and an artic attempting to reverse half a mile up a single carriageway NSL speed limit road into several dozen cars at a standstill behind it....

All the locals (me included) use another route now driving
Oh the irony - I just popped out and forgot to take the alternative route....to find an HGV reversing up the road away from the aqueduct. On the way back I counted six large, bold signs stating exactly where the bridge is, how tall it is and what would fit under it. I'm not sure how they can miss them...


Edited by Tidybeard on Wednesday 30th July 17:12

hman

7,487 posts

193 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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someone I know drove a high top van under the low bridge in thetford - I think the van was 2 weeks old, instantly wrote it off.

Paddymcc

929 posts

190 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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One of my previous bosses crashed the lorry into a bridge while carrying a forklift with a high mast. Ended up splitting the low loading trailer in two. The same boss some years later done similar when transporting a sideloading forklift back to the workshop only this time the forklift was a write off.

fangio

988 posts

233 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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In the early days of street light 'cherry pickers', the driver of a truck mounted one hadn't dropped it right down. The arm with the cage on was forward-facing and as he hit the low bridge, he and his mate were ejected smartly through the windscreen.
Pre seatbelt days...eek

sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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I quite like the American way of approaching this. Not a hint of irony.

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

140 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Reminds me of the time i saw a double decker bus try and fit under a low bridge like the one OP has shown, the bridge opened up the bus like a tin can, good job no one was upstairs as it could have been very messy.

The Moose

22,820 posts

208 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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sebhaque said:
I quite like the American way of approaching this. Not a hint of irony.
I was just about to suggest that...

...Could hook it up to a big fk off sign that tells them to stop and reverse the hell up!

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

140 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Reminds me of the time i saw a double decker bus try and fit under a low bridge like the one OP has shown, the bridge opened up the bus like a tin can, good job no one was upstairs as it could have been very messy.

craig_m67

949 posts

187 months

Thursday 31st July 2014
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I never understood why they wouldn't just put in a height sensor and a traffic light far enough back to allow a safe stop. Would have to be cheaper than fixing the bridge all the time and or putting in armour plating.