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« Reply #271 on: October 17, 2019, 13:24:36 » |
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Not just the bin arm was up – but a bin attached! Looks like someone was in too much of a hurry to finish the shift.
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« Reply #272 on: October 17, 2019, 23:21:48 » |
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Posts: 4543 The artist formerly known as Four Track, Now! View Profile Personal Message (Offline) Re: Railway bridges struck by road vehicles - merged topic, ongoing discussion « Reply #266 on: Yesterday at 11:08:08 pm » Reply with quoteQuote Quote from: broadgage on Yesterday at 12:35:44 pm Quote from: Bmblbzzz on Yesterday at 09:48:23 am The sergeant major's going to do some shouting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50054615"can we bend it back into shape, and hide it at the back, before the sergeant major finds out ?" Good luck with that one! Not only has some poor squaddie learnt about vehicle heights and low bridges, we now also know where the weld seams are between the side panels on Peugeot vans! |
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« Reply #274 on: November 08, 2019, 17:50:37 » |
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« Reply #275 on: November 08, 2019, 18:21:29 » |
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The bridge in question is being raised from 3.56m to 3.76m. You'd think that wouldn't make much difference, but a quick check reveals that a MAN 7.5t truck is 3.6m high; hire trucks seem to make up the bulk of the can-opener's victims: http://11foot8.com/ |
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #277 on: December 02, 2019, 11:54:44 » |
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Any raising of bridges will be too late for this poor English bus, as reported by The ArgusTop floor of double decker bus destroyed in Hassocks 'accident'By Harry Bullmore @HarryBullmore Reporter Top floor of double decker bus destroyed in Hassocks 'accident' . Picture by Simon Fenton  THE roof of a double decker school bus collapsed after an "accident" near a bridge. The top deck of the bus was destroyed and left crumpled and misshapen following the incident this morning. A spokesman for Heritage, the coach company which owns the bus involved, said: "The driver was returning from the school run with an empty bus which was out of service. "We cannot comment further." An AA spokesman warned of delays in the area as a result of the crash. He said: "The road is partially blocked and there are delays due to an accident involving a bus on the B2116 Keymer Road, outside Hassocks station." |
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« Reply #278 on: December 02, 2019, 12:04:56 » |
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I can't see a Welsh connection to the bus?
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« Reply #279 on: December 02, 2019, 12:19:09 » |
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I can't see a Welsh connection to the bus?
My mistake. Wrong Argus. It is indeed an English bus. I have corrected the error before I get letters from Welsh llawyers. |
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« Reply #280 on: December 02, 2019, 13:23:42 » |
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Nice use of 'quotes' around 'accident'.
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« Reply #281 on: December 02, 2019, 14:45:34 » |
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I wonder why, when this sort of thing happens, the media response is so often to publish a quote from an “AA spokesman”?  Do the AA, or other breakdown firms, really have a bloke on call prepared to state the obvious? Paul |
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« Reply #282 on: December 02, 2019, 14:58:51 » |
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I wonder why, when this sort of thing happens, the media response is so often to publish a quote from an “AA spokesman”? Do the AA, or other breakdown firms, really have a bloke on call prepared to state the obvious? Paul Surely that's the AA, motoring organisation, not breakdown firm. So the answer is yes, it's part of their function. |
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« Reply #283 on: December 02, 2019, 17:18:19 » |
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I can't see a Welsh connection to the bus?
My mistake. Wrong Argus. It is indeed an English bus. I have corrected the error before I get letters from Welsh llawyers. Diolch yn fawr! |
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« Reply #284 on: December 02, 2019, 21:28:56 » |
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I can't see a Welsh connection to the bus?
My mistake. Wrong Argus. It is indeed an English bus. I have corrected the error before I get letters from Welsh llawyers. Diolch yn fawr! Peidiwch â sôn. Surely that's the AA, motoring organisation, not breakdown firm. So the answer is yes, it's part of their function.
Unless the driver had been on the beer (cwrw if he is Welsh), in which it could be someone else with the same abbrev. |
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