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Another bridge!
"Roland Perry" wrote in message
... In message , at 13:57:00 on Fri, 6 May 2016, Basil Jet remarked: surely the point of these crashes is that the bloke thinks that even though the sign/detector/water curtain thinks that he's too high for the bridge/tunnel, he thinks that he'll squeeze through with half an inch to spare, and a lot of the time he'll be right. It's much more likely they just forget what they are driving (how high etc). Exactly. The various "hanging is too good for 'em" pundits here need to consider that the driver is dealing with a combination of the deck height of the trailer, the height of the container, and quite possibility the tractor unit may affect the height as well. Nobody is questioning the fact that the lorry driver is responsible for making sure it will all fit, but given the opportunities for mistakes to happen it's a wonder there aren't more incidents of this nature. For example, it's possible that the driver passed under the same bridge with a smaller container in one direction, and then swapped it for a taller container - or even a taller trailer/container combination - for the return journey. What happened is comparable with a signaller setting the wrong route for a train and then the driver accepting that route. Surely that *never* happens, does it? There but for the Grace of God, etc. etc. -- DAS |
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