Bingley - The Dick Hudsons to East Morton stretch of road.
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I'm sure a few of you here will know this wonderful little stretch of road. It's great fun to drive on but seems to be regularly closed due to accidents. It was closed last night when I was driving over to Menston but had been opened again by the time I was coming back. I'm not sure but there may have been evidence of an incident in the bottom of the dip in the section that I like to refer to as "Eau Rouge" (anyone who's driven on there will know why I like to call it that 
). Previously it was closed due to a fatal crash and on an another occasion, not long prior to that, it was closed due to an accident. Does anyone know what happened up there last night?
). Previously it was closed due to a fatal crash and on an another occasion, not long prior to that, it was closed due to an accident. Does anyone know what happened up there last night?Morbid? No, was just curious as to what had happened this time, as much because I wanted to hear that nothing serious had happened to anyone as anything else. There seems to be an awful lot of closures of this road, for reasons which are obvious to anyone who's driven along it. So, while I love to drive along there myself, it does concern me that those who don't know it quite as well as I do can get caught out.
.Scameras and a reduced speed limit, possibly. It's an NSL, but you could crash at less than 50 in the "Eau Rouge" bit. Imagine "Eau Rouge", but shrunk so that you'd be pushing your luck trying to take it at more than 45ish, and you get the picture.
ETA:
Found a video of it on YouTube.
6:00 Dick Hudson's is the pub on the left.
7:21 Enter "Eau Rouge"
7:45 The best bit of the stretch ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUE198F4u8
Unfortunately this guy's run is blighted by the (all too often in my experience) convoy of shopping cars.
ETA:
Found a video of it on YouTube.
6:00 Dick Hudson's is the pub on the left.
7:21 Enter "Eau Rouge"
7:45 The best bit of the stretch ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUE198F4u8
Unfortunately this guy's run is blighted by the (all too often in my experience) convoy of shopping cars.
Edited by MitchT on Saturday 23 January 10:07
MitchT said:
Scameras and a reduced speed limit, possibly. It's an NSL, but you could crash at less than 50 in the "Eau Rouge" bit. Imagine "Eau Rouge", but shrunk so that you'd be pushing your luck trying to take it at more than 45ish, and you get the picture.
ETA:
Found a video of it on YouTube.
6:00 Dick Hudson's is the pub on the left.
7:21 Enter "Eau Rouge"
7:45 The best bit of the stretch ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUE198F4u8
Unfortunately this guy's run is blighted by the (all too often in my experience) convoy of shopping cars.
Why does anyone post on YouTube a vid of following a Focus, then following an Almera (or something like that) with Radio One on? Nice road true, but weird that anyone would waste time with that video!ETA:
Found a video of it on YouTube.
6:00 Dick Hudson's is the pub on the left.
7:21 Enter "Eau Rouge"
7:45 The best bit of the stretch ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUE198F4u8
Unfortunately this guy's run is blighted by the (all too often in my experience) convoy of shopping cars.
Edited by MitchT on Saturday 23 January 10:07
Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but.......
It was an accident, caused by a drink driver in an Audi TT, who was speeding as he entered 'eau rouge', and went over the brow on the wrong side of the road, hitting, and demolishing, a Citroen C3, and then spinning off, and hitting the car behind, badly injuring three people in two cars.
How do I know? Well, I was the passenger in the C3.
It was an accident, caused by a drink driver in an Audi TT, who was speeding as he entered 'eau rouge', and went over the brow on the wrong side of the road, hitting, and demolishing, a Citroen C3, and then spinning off, and hitting the car behind, badly injuring three people in two cars.
How do I know? Well, I was the passenger in the C3.
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