Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#1
Dover express website featured a story this week on an abandoned Ford cargo horsebox truck which has been dumped at the junction of Dickson road in Tower Hamlets for a couple of weeks causing problems as it seemed to have broken down.Someone had broken into it and appeared to be living in it.The same Horsebox had been previously dumped for quite some time opposite the old paper mill.I saw the same truck yesterday dumped in Elms vale road at the bus stop minus its rear lights and various other parts with a sign on the screen stating it had broken down again.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#2
Its slowly escaping to the countryside,now outside Elms vale rec and appears to have broken down again.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
Strange how it keeps moving as it is broken down, not the sort of vehicle that is easy to simply give it a push. I wonder where the next place will be when it will conveniently breaks down.
I assume it must be taxed and insured or surely it would have been towed and crushed by now.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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#4
Maybe starts and travels a short distance due to a fuel blockage or something else.Definatly abandoned,its falling to bits,had a few parking tickets on it when at Dickson road.Its not so easy to be recovered like a car,this is a 7.5ton horsebox,a small lorry,cannot be easily lifted like dvla sometimes do with untaxed cars.Far too heavy.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#5
I have read that someone is living in it, there was an accompanying photo of a bed.
Surely it could be removed by an appropriate tow truck either by the owner or police, the same as any other lorry of a similar size would be.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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#7
Dont think the police like to pick up the bill for recovery with their already stretched budgets.I,ve seen a few smashed cars at the roadside that just get some police aware tape and little more,about a year ago there was an abandoned car on Whitfield hill that was there for months while it was stripped of any useful parts.More recently i,ve seen a car smashed on the roundabout on Sandwich bypass,its been there for a couple of weeks.I suppose the police hope it will either be recovered by its owner or insurance company or a passing scrap merchant.I just dont think their funds allow it anymore.
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