- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
An Iveco beaver tail truck thing not twin wheel though . I did raise my concerns with the driver but he assured me he had carried tractors before and they only wieght 2 tons .
Wreckers!!
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Then he will wonder why he ends up like the Landrovers,!!
- Location
- North West Wales
Exactly, I’ve seen silage traikers, muck spreaders an slurry tankers on trailers like that with no problem as long as they’re loaded with correct amount of nose weight. For that LR they shoukd have removed headboard and fitted a lower one so as to over hang the bumper over the front.
Has any one read the Facebook comments? Apparently it was the fault of the trailer and load being heavier than towing vehicle so was expected!!
fieldfarmer
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I did see a screen shot that implied the towing vehicle was "sorn" and out of "mot" at the time but haven’t looked it up for myself.Exactly, I’ve seen silage traikers, muck spreaders an slurry tankers on trailers like that with no problem as long as they’re loaded with correct amount of nose weight. For that LR they shoukd have removed headboard and fitted a lower one so as to over hang the bumper over the front.
Has any one read the Facebook comments? Apparently it was the fault of the trailer and load being heavier than towing vehicle so was expected!!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Agreed - but a taller and narrower vehicle will have a narrower safe envelope than a lower and wider one. If you want to be as safe as you can be, go low and wide.
And there are plenty 3.5tonne transporters if you look, just like there are plenty 2.7 flat beds (Bateson do a 16’ 2.5tonner.)
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
So it's got an MOT but is SORN. When did the accident happen? If it was last month I'd expect it to be SORN by now.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Looks to me like the towing one went into the verge hit tree and trailer pendulum-ed round and pulled it out so all facing the other way, trailer rolling over as it went round.
Picture one as it all come to rest.
- Location
- Hampshire
I remember a few years back someone doing something similar, but he ended up on a railway track and derailed a train. Think he went to prison for it.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Still suspect he preferred prison to the fate of the ten killed and 82 seriously injured.
Selby rail crash - Wikipedia
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
- Location
- Lincolnshire
He just fell asleep, he had been up most of the night before setting off early in the morning, 30m more armco barrier would have prevented it.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
What a ridiculous comment! The police had tracked back his movements, rests etc over the previous few days, he was seriously sleep deprived, genuinely an accident waiting to happen, hence the prison sentence.
His vehicle went thirty yards down an embankment without the brakes being applied so it's reasonable to assume he was asleep. Tantamount to manslaughter imo.
His insurers having paid out an 8 figure sum in compensation sued Network rail on the basis that the barrier was not sufficient.
They lost
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Go and look, still no extra Armco... it starts at the top of the slope, they have now put gabions half way down the bank, but one of those concrete walls they have in the central reservations would stop anything leaving the motorway.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Should have backed it on and put 2 IBCs of water in the back
Not sure its marshalls lorry. It doesnt look like a low loader.
but the comment that "he (just) fell asleep" is true.
Falling asleep caused the incident, rather than speed, or the trailer turning over etc. You are of course correct in cuasal factors whihc led the driver to fall asleep.
I thought the barriers were altered after the incident, as an inquiry was ordered by John Prescot.
The incident was 20 years ago last Sunday. Very, very sad.
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
barriers were altered on many bridges along that line soon after that incident