M8 accident yesterday
M8 accident yesterday
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Craigie

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1,232 posts

202 months

Tuesday 19th October 2010
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Anyone witness the overturned streetsweeper / road cleaner truck on the M8 westbound at the Fruit Market last night?

Am curious (and nosey) to see what led to it overturning in rush hour traffic where the traffic is normally pretty stationery at that point. And when I passed there didn't seem to be anything else involved either?

Starnge one!

Proxy

825 posts

187 months

Tuesday 19th October 2010
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Didn't see it, heard about it from a friend on another forum though!
Sounds like it was a right nasty one frown

Edited by Proxy on Tuesday 19th October 13:47

anonymous-user

77 months

Tuesday 19th October 2010
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I drove past it at a crawl going the other direction, looked an odd one, sweeper truck was facing the right direction, overturned on it's left hand side straddling middle and outside lanes pointing towards the barrier, in the outside lane ahead of it there was a peugeot with damage to both the front and the back, barrier wasn't buckled badly from what i could see from the other side - work out how that one happened if you can!

Proxy

825 posts

187 months

Tuesday 19th October 2010
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There was another one just up the road a bit between junc. 12 & 13.

Overturned lorry & a mangled VW Passat Estate (complete write-off I'm told) ...
Hope everyone was ok :S

Chucklehead

2,847 posts

231 months

Tuesday 19th October 2010
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I saw a dark red polo spin out after it appeared to have collided with another car. That was at about 1700 just after braehead (eastbound)