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[email protected] · May 5th 16, 01:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (D A Stocks)
wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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.

It's a shipping container that hit the bridge, so the driver may well
have been caught out by the size of that.

Another solution for fixed height vehicles would be to mandate the
fitting of warning devices to the vehicles themsleves; I saw a very
effective radar system in use on a coach some years ago. However,
this would be harder to put into practise for vehicles like this one
that can carry a variable height load.

Shipping containers are standard sizes so I don't accept not knowing the
height as an excuse. So vehicle-located warning devices would be very
practical.

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Colin Rosenstiel