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Roland Perry · May 5th 16, 10:05 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:12:50 on Thu, 5 May
2016, d remarked:
I think the only solution is to have a sturdy steel beam, painted in
luminous paint, a few metres before the bridge (and obviously mounted so
that, even if hit, no force is transferred to the bridge parapets). The
beam might be a few cm below the bridge, but there might also be a hanging
fringe below that so it's right in the driver's eye line.

Well he failed to spot the pretty obvious warning signs on the bridge so I
doubt this particular Einstein would have seen a painted beam either.

Are we sure he ignored the signs, rather than forgot (or didn't properly
know) the height of his vehicle. Forgetting what you are driving is just
about the only reason one of the fairly regular double-decker bus bashes
happens.
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Roland Perry