The Front Page. - Copy 109 ( Seafront Accidents & Nigel Collor, Blockship)
2 July 2010
Local Transport Supremo Nigel Collor KCC, DDC, has seen our Doverforum pictures of the recent seafront accidents as displayed here on our frontpage, one of those accidents showing below, the other accident of 5 or 6 days ago, is now in All Recent Features copy 108, and has made the following statement.
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I did see the Doverforum photos from the sea front incidents.
I have asked various officers at both KCC, as the highway authority, and DDC, as the parking enforcement authority, for some information. If needs be we can look at the position again taking a wide view - this was done to try to prevent caravans parking along the sea front at night that we have received so many complaints from residents about - they need to park in the bays, and angled they couldn't legally do so. I have wondered whether a white line down the centre of the moving lanes would help.
As a side issue, I have KCC officers costing resurfacing parts of the sea front road so that I can consider asking for this to be done from my County Members Highway Fund Budget - with this funding last year I had a long stretch of footpath resurfaced and kerbing realigned outside the Charlton Centre in the High Street and the path alongside St Mary's Church, Dieu Stone Lane, reslabbed. There is other work that I also need to consider so I'll need to look carefully at costings provided, prioratise and maybe make a tough decision or two.
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As I was writing on this website at 6.30am.. another loud bang shattered the peace and tranquility down here on Dover Seafront - today saturday July 3. Just as the dust had settled on a previous nasty accident merely a few short days ago, see All Recent Features Copy 108, here we are with another crash and quite a hefty impact it was too, clearly seen here by the state of the black car which was rendered totally immobile.
Within minutes the Police were on the scene and then moments later the Fire Brigade. Nobody needed to be cut from the wreckage, so there appeared to be no real injury, but the black car needed heavy disentangling from its mangled self so that it could be moved.
Since the pictures were taken there is now an ambulance on the scene.
The black car had collided with a small silver Renault which for some inexplicable reason only had slight damage...whereas the black vehicle was/is seriously damaged. Because of the deeply unpopular oddball parking arrangements down here on the seafront, we can expect a lot more accidents. Reversing into the path of oncoming traffic is always a recipe for disaster. This may not have been the cause in this case, it doesn't appear so anyway, but you can witness the near misses regularly at busy times. PB
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Catching the Late Rays: For quite a few weeks now the platform shown above has been in the harbour languishing sleepily against the Prince of Wales pier. But in the past week it has moved into a more hands-on 'coalface' position at the breakwater as it endeavours to move the wreck from the western entrance seabed. The wreck lies beneth the waves there and has done since WWI, when a cargo vessel was purposely scuttled to block the entrance to enemy submarines. It will be a slow process and not very spectacular on the eye. That's the very best we can do pictorially above, taken in the very late evening sun just as night begins to fall over Dover. There was talk of using explosives initially which generated much interest, but that has been ruled out due, as we understand it, to prohibitive cost . Gazing at the pic above you may also have noted the jacket around the lighthouse, these weather beaten purveyors of light in Dover Harbour are enjoying a painterly makeover.
Nigel Collor on the Seafront Accidents.
Local Transport Supremo Nigel Collor KCC, DDC, has seen our Doverforum pictures of the recent seafront accidents as displayed here on our frontpage, one of those accidents showing below, the other accident of 5 or 6 days ago, is now in All Recent Features copy 108, and has made the following statement.
"
I did see the Doverforum photos from the sea front incidents.
I have asked various officers at both KCC, as the highway authority, and DDC, as the parking enforcement authority, for some information. If needs be we can look at the position again taking a wide view - this was done to try to prevent caravans parking along the sea front at night that we have received so many complaints from residents about - they need to park in the bays, and angled they couldn't legally do so. I have wondered whether a white line down the centre of the moving lanes would help.
As a side issue, I have KCC officers costing resurfacing parts of the sea front road so that I can consider asking for this to be done from my County Members Highway Fund Budget - with this funding last year I had a long stretch of footpath resurfaced and kerbing realigned outside the Charlton Centre in the High Street and the path alongside St Mary's Church, Dieu Stone Lane, reslabbed. There is other work that I also need to consider so I'll need to look carefully at costings provided, prioratise and maybe make a tough decision or two.
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Another Seafront Accident
As I was writing on this website at 6.30am.. another loud bang shattered the peace and tranquility down here on Dover Seafront - today saturday July 3. Just as the dust had settled on a previous nasty accident merely a few short days ago, see All Recent Features Copy 108, here we are with another crash and quite a hefty impact it was too, clearly seen here by the state of the black car which was rendered totally immobile.
Within minutes the Police were on the scene and then moments later the Fire Brigade. Nobody needed to be cut from the wreckage, so there appeared to be no real injury, but the black car needed heavy disentangling from its mangled self so that it could be moved.
Since the pictures were taken there is now an ambulance on the scene.
The black car had collided with a small silver Renault which for some inexplicable reason only had slight damage...whereas the black vehicle was/is seriously damaged. Because of the deeply unpopular oddball parking arrangements down here on the seafront, we can expect a lot more accidents. Reversing into the path of oncoming traffic is always a recipe for disaster. This may not have been the cause in this case, it doesn't appear so anyway, but you can witness the near misses regularly at busy times. PB
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Raising the BlockShip
Catching the Late Rays: For quite a few weeks now the platform shown above has been in the harbour languishing sleepily against the Prince of Wales pier. But in the past week it has moved into a more hands-on 'coalface' position at the breakwater as it endeavours to move the wreck from the western entrance seabed. The wreck lies beneth the waves there and has done since WWI, when a cargo vessel was purposely scuttled to block the entrance to enemy submarines. It will be a slow process and not very spectacular on the eye. That's the very best we can do pictorially above, taken in the very late evening sun just as night begins to fall over Dover. There was talk of using explosives initially which generated much interest, but that has been ruled out due, as we understand it, to prohibitive cost . Gazing at the pic above you may also have noted the jacket around the lighthouse, these weather beaten purveyors of light in Dover Harbour are enjoying a painterly makeover.