How's This for a U-Turn !
- 13 October 2010 10:0174777
This is as "live" as we can get, happening now as we speak.
One heck of a place to try a u-turn and the tail back is now l-o-n-g...
However he isnt the first guy to try it and wont be the last, nor will he be the last to come a cropper. Interestingly though they have a new exit strategy inside the docks and you dont realise you are being filtered up towards Whitfield and all points north until its too late. Hence the upsurge in people trying unachievable u-turns.email: dover7@msn.com - 13 October 2010 10:0374781Stupid driver what was he thinking?
- 13 October 2010 10:0574782Aargh! Our man on the spot PaulB captures the moment as it happens
Probably trying to avoid the police car parked in the road :) - 13 October 2010 10:0674783Melissa I think the guys panic when they find themselves heading off in the wrong direction because those new exit roads are weird. Heading north when you wanna go west is the problem...they dont know they can come back again from the roundabout at the top of the hill.
Lol!! re policecar..yes those guys have a lot to answer for..
email: dover7@msn.com - 13 October 2010 10:1874785Pure laziness... happens all too often.
My dad has had a few scares on the hill there with lorries on the wrong side of the road !!!!!!!!!!!!Been nice knowing you :) - 13 October 2010 12:0274792It's an interesting u-turn, but one that from the start was destined to fail! That technically. But adding to that, the driver should at least have guessed that the Port-authorities would have seen the funniossity and sent the Police out anyway to fine him even if he had succeeded in getting that truck round 180 degrees!Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 13 October 2010 12:0774795And the nationality of the truck is??
- 13 October 2010 12:2074797That, Bob, would not have changed the mind of the Police on effecting a well-deserved fine! Driving comes down to common sense and respecting the road-regulations.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 13 October 2010 14:5674813great photo, hope no-one was hurt.
alex
i think that bob was trying to get across that any fine meted out to certain foreign hauliers would be pointless, they sometimes forget to pay them. - 13 October 2010 15:0474815I went by about 925 am when it had happened ( so PaulB must have still been in bed - don't blame him for that!) it was a british reg lorry and would have succeded if it wasnt for someone dumping a load of pea shingle to slow lorries up! I hope he gets fined for dangerous driving as even he should have realised that it was a daft manoeuvre. I returned at 12 noon as the police wre moving the barriers closing jubilee way at the top. A surprisingly long period.
- Brian Dixon
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13 October 2010 15:2974821thats two in ten days then. - 13 October 2010 16:1874826If I take a wrong turning, my satnav usually says 'turn around where possible'. And just because it was a UK-registered truck doesn't mean it was a British driver.
However there's nothing wrong with using a bit of common sense.
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
