howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Closed off this morning after a lorry hit a bridge.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/lorry-hits-bridge-133776/
Top notch journalism as always "Part of a wall and a bin appear to have been damaged."
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
So what was it then - an unsuccessful attack on Labour HQ or a successful ploy to get River buses to avoid St Rads?
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,164
Button wrote:So what was it then - an unsuccessful attack on Labour HQ or a successful ploy to get River buses to avoid St Rads?
This has been happening far, far too often, double decker buses usually, 'accidentally' hitting railway bridges. It happens all over the country. This time they've obviously farmed out the 'hit' to a lorry driver.
The railway line is necessarily 'out of action' awaiting inspection by engineers and guess who profits? Yes, you've got it. The bus companies who now take all the passengers who would have gone by rail.
God knows why the police are not looking into this scam. Whilst a capitalist at heart I do NOT think it fair competition trying to knock out the competition infrastructure.
When did you last hear of a train hitting a road bridge 'accidentally'? Just saying.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Well I have been to Canterbury took me One hour twenty minutes,via. Whitfield all the villages between to Aylesham then via Bridge.I. Did not come back that way.Bus from Canterbury to Dover thirty five minutes the a ten minute wait for abus out to River ,and praise the Lord as Coombe valley road was a no go straight up,Crabble Hill and indoors one hour five minutes after leaving Canterbury.Before the alterations this journey took twenty five minutes.s
Stupid route for Lorries using that bridge .
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
just as stupid having to go over hillside road,but hey were only minions in public opinion.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
To compound the misery another lorry has gone up St Radigunds rd and made it as far as lister court, can't back out because of cars parked on london rd
One of the first things you are taught as an lgv or pcv student Is to identify the height of your vehicle normally by looking at the height plate on the dashboard, there should at least be licence penalties for the drivers.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Containers are not all the same height, it may be that the incident today in Coombe Valley Road was caused by the driver having a box 9'6" high in old money when he normally pulled 8'6" ones.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
I think they call them high cube containers, but the driver has the responsible for knowing that and can have no excuse other than stupidity!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Containers are not all the same height, it may be that the incident today in Coombe Valley Road was caused by the driver having a box 9'6" high in old money when he normally pulled 8'6" ones.
That is no excuse, the driver should check and know the height from when he leaves the depot much the same as checking and knowing his brakes and lights etc are working.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
About an hour ago a foreign reg artic tried to come the wrong way into coombe valley when seeing the signs for road closed.As he turned he smashed the barriers on the trafffic island badly damaging them.The way he made the sharp turn i think he forgot he was driving a truck,i couldnt believe what i was seeing,wish i had a dashcam.I wondered if he,d been drinking like so many do.Just take a look on any industrial estate etc when theres a gathering of them having a picnic in the back of a trailer,bottles of wine,vodka,etc you can see it at any time.Shows what they think of us and rules of the road,time the traffic cops started working for a living and patrol areas were they park,i,m sure many that leave in the early hours are over the limit.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
Apparently the driver this morning insisted he was underheight. The police measured the protective steelwork and it was lower than the sign.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,164
Andy B, It is no good blaming the cops. They are rushed off their feet investigating people who say beastly things on the interweb.
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