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Gravdigr · 03-25-2019, 12:30 PM

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Carruthers · 03-26-2019, 01:59 PM

I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that this still happens but I raised an eyebrow at the time taken before the driver decided to stop.

Perhaps that's an unfair criticism as people don't all behave in the same way in an emergency.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-27-2019, 12:27 AM

It happens everywhere, some places repeatedly, but this guy apparently took awhile to figure out what happened. He felt a small jerk and heard a noise and probably looked at his engine gages instead of the mirrors.

Carruthers · 03-27-2019, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It happens everywhere, some places repeatedly, but this guy apparently took awhile to figure out what happened. He felt a small jerk and heard a noise and probably looked at his engine gages instead of the mirrors.

Blackthorn railway bridge just outside Bicester on the Aylesbury side has been repeatedly struck by overheight vehicles despite all manner of warning signs starting several miles away and on the bridge itself.

I was once following a large vehicle carrying a detachable container used for transporting scrap metal.
As it approached the bridge the driver slowed to a snail's pace and all seemed well until the truck was all but entirely beneath the bridge. That's when the fun started.
On the top rear corner of the container was a triangular steel fillet welded to a piece of vertical pipe, which I understand is to facilitate stacking of containers.
As the truck inched forward the fillet came into contact with the outside lower edge of the bridge and gradually the whole ensemble was pressed down on the springs.
Unfortunately, as it moved forward the fillet and pipe structure instantly rose and it became stuck in the corrugated underside of the bridge deck.
I don't know how it was removed but, if pressed, I'd say that deflation of tyres probably featured quite prominently in the recovery plan!

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Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that this still happens but I raised an eyebrow at the time taken before the driver decided to stop. Perhaps that's an unfair criticism as people don't all behave in the same way in an emergency. __________________

03-27-2019, 12:27 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It happens everywhere, some places repeatedly, but this guy apparently took awhile to figure out what happened. He felt a small jerk and heard a noise and probably looked at his engine gages instead of the mirrors. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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