Wreckers!!

[Netherfield]

I hate flashing tits.......but in that case one sat on the power harrow might have come in andy

No use, people don't see them in the daylight anyway.

Had a chap rip open his new Vauxhall Chevette on the side of a Taarup 307 mower, flashing light on the edge that sticks out into the road, poor guy's sat there in a heap of glass from the door window, complaining how his wife will go ballistic because they were driving down to Cornwall that evening.
In his insurance claim he tried to say it was all my fault and was travelling over the 30 mph speed limit, in a David Brown 1212, good luck with that claim pal.

 

[J428TGS]

From FB

https://www.facebook.com/100002208283056/posts/2702548646495385

Maybe the Foucs was over taking the van. ssame as what happened, two tone

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[Dman2]

Off FB
Not sure about this one

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2474022162878342

 

[richj]

https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/overturned-tractor-and-trailer-at-littleport-1-6353754

 

[jondear]

Off FB
Not sure about this one

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2474022162878342

WTF!

 

[bobajob]

WTF!

Being held up there by a crane!

 

[Dman2]

Being held up there by a crane!

Yes never saw that at first

 

[bluegreen]

The John Deere 6215R and potato trailer crash was caused by an errant motorist and happened just up the road from me and comes less than a week after the fatal crash on A141 at Chatteris (also nearby) involving a JCB 4220 Fastrac and a car. Too many careless impatient car drivers in these parts

 

[PSQ]

“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home”.

pic.twitter.com/IVYPkleu3O
IVYPkleu3O

 

[daveydiesel1]

Off FB
Not sure about this one

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2474022162878342

How would that even happen. How would ye get her rescued and how would the driver even get out especially if injured

 

[daveydiesel1]

Being held up there by a crane!

Oh never noticed you had pointed that out lol

 

[daveydiesel1]

The John Deere 6215R and potato trailer crash was caused by an errant motorist and happened just up the road from me and comes less than a week after the fatal crash on A141 at Chatteris (also nearby) involving a JCB 4220 Fastrac and a car. Too many careless impatient car drivers in these parts

Some car drivers and bikers are impatient arseholes and then they have the arrogance to giv the man doin 25 to 30 mph bad publicity. Common sence tells ye that a tractor or lorry carryin large wide heavy loads needs to be respected,when your in a bean tin weighin ton and half thinkin that you own the road its no wonder accidents happen

 

[RushesToo]

I had a very similar situation happen to me 5 years ago.
I was moving a 4m wide combi down the A44, towards Woodstock being escorted by a vehicle in front with headlights and hazards on and a big sign saying Wide Vehicle following. My tractor had all is lights on, flashing lights on the cab and an extra flashing light on the rhs of the power harrow.
The road lanes were 4 metres wide so I didn’t need to cross the double white “no overtaking” lines.

2 cars were heading towards me in the other direction, the first slows down and pulls over to its left, the second pulls out to overtake it and BANG!

Ripped the driver’s door skin off, but it carries on down the road round a corner and out of slight!
I pulled into a lay-by 100 metres down the road to remove the door skin and wait. Eventually a car comes up and stops behind me. The driver gets out and said she saw everything and that she followed that damaged car for half a mile and it never stopped. We swap names and addresses.

I carried on to the field. Parked up, took some photos of the slightly bent power harrow wing and got a lift home in the escort vehicle. About an hour after the accident and a mile past where it took place were 2 police cars and the damaged vehicle.

Dilemma! Do I stop and own up or carry on?..... We stopped.

Police shove me in the back of the 2nd Police car and take a statement. I give them the name of the witness and show them the photos. Then off I went home.

About a week later the Police ring to say they are closing the case. I had already informed NFU mutual but can’t be bothered to claim for gas torching the wing straight again.

A month later I get a call from the NFU fraud team to ask for a meeting. They come and we discuss what happened. They inform me that the damaged car diver claimed she was stationary and that I hit her!
Would I be prepared to go to court on NFU’s behalf to stop this fraud? Too right I would!

But the driver dropped her claim, in light of what that witness had told the Police and the NFU.


Moral of the story: Always take lots of photos and have a good witness.

Love it.

Would it be better ringing the police as you left the field saying "I have finished my shift of work, and have something to report, can we meet?"

 

[Andrew]

Love it.

Would it be better ringing the police as you left the field saying "I have finished my shift of work, and have something to report, can we meet?"

I got hit by a driver who failed to stop. Called 101 and they said they can’t deal with it over the phone, I had to go into the station to make a written statement.

 

[Tomtrac]

View attachment 841534https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/overturned-tractor-and-trailer-at-littleport-1-6353754

Hope he/she was wearing his safety belt

 

[Mickstup]

Not a farm vehicle, but on a narrow lane near us, luckily main damage to the crew was dislocated shoulders and cracked ribs. https://www.shropshirestar.com/news...ck-rolls-nine-times-down-hill-after-accident/

 

[Landy Nick]

Very local to me. Obviously the driver didnt notice the stationary tractor in front waiting to pull out.

 

[spanners and hammers]

2 cars and fire engine must of been the mayors cousin in the car !!!!

 

[Dman2]

Looked to be fair travelling when it hit tractor considering they were coming up to a junction