In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 14/12/2015 20:08, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2015\12\14 19:38, Redoute wrote:
Am 14.12.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Basil Jet:

Presumably this one. 13'9" clearance on the South Circular Road.
You'd have to wonder how blind someone would have to be to hit that.

Oops... https://goo.gl/maps/AE7Z3fJAGoH2

Holy crap, I couldn't work out what that was at first but what looks
like a tarpaulin hanging on the side is actually bulging steel from the
container which is caved in at the front. Great company name too...
"Logistic Planning Services". I don't think they planned this!

Indeed, it's a shipping container that's taken a hefty whack! The
whole side wall of the container appears to be at a slight angle too.

Coming from that direction, the lorry will have passed a height
activated warning sign too. I think there's a fair amount of advance
signage about this bridge too. I suppose the issue is that it is the
grandly named South Circular Road, and so perhaps lulls drivers
(particularly those familiar with the North Circular) into a false
sense of security, though it's not the only low bridge on the route.

Looking at Google Street View I can't see signs of height activated warning
signs further along the road and in the other direction the sign is far too
far past the detectors. Even the diversion signs are only temporary! Bizarre.

There are other low bridges on the South Circular, at East Putney station
for example. That also has advance height activated warning signs in one
direction, the approach from the west, but it is well ahead of the bridges.
https://goo.gl/maps/6E92R3W8DdQ2 shows the detector posts with the sign just
visible in the distance and the bridge some way beyond it, with left and
right turns available to avoid the bridge. And it's 15" too. Putting the
sign right by the bridge, far too late to turn, is taking the ****.

And why do the ****wits at Google fuzz out the height restriction signs in
some views?

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Colin Rosenstiel