Aye, it was a Simpsons unit, nice bit of trivia, you spotter!
Then some keen, good looking young chaps from Darlington cut it in half, welded and bolted some girders into the middle, turned the diesel tank around so it sat across the chassis behind the cab (for ballast) and nailed a Dyson Enforcer onto it’s back:
Then they drove it down country, where a nice chap from Bromsgrove folded some tin sheet up and made boxes for the kit. He nailed them to the sides:
Then young Simmo put it all in fresh paint and off it went out to work.
In that very first pic in this thread, that’s me down the bank in the orange.
Might be a silly question but assuming the driver was still conscious why did he have to be cut out? Couldn’t he have just rolled down his window (with the ignition still on) and clambered out? Bit of a jump but its not that far… Still gives the fire brigade something to do lol
The amount of double deckers ive seen rocking from side to side as the driver goes flat out scares me, I dont think they realise disaster is only a rock away, ive pulled them and didnt enjoy it much as the monkeys that loaded them at the hub just cared about getting it all on, ■■■■ it if it was top heavy. I was new to artics so didnt want to rock the boat so to speak.
JISL to ESL:
Like most of us I’ve seen lots of accidents but never seen the vehicles being recovered. Is there a site where I can watch vids of the vehicle recovery being carried out. Must emphasise it’s purely the mechanical recovery side I’m interested in, not the human misery side.
They don’t videos but loads of pictures of vehicle recovery.
It would have been £4500 (off road, not upright, over 18t, empty) on the police scheme.
If it had been loaded it would be £6k. Everything is fixed price now. £6k is the maximum ANY heavy job would cost now.
But this wasn’t our police area, we were doing this job for one of the clubs, so just hourly rate on the wrecker, probly’s around £1500 all in.
BigJTheplayer: what was the conditions like Webby??
It was a bit wet and a bit of a breeze but road wasnt slippy… I dont know when it happened it might of been there since the Saturday night so weather might of been different…
shortfatbaldbloke:
Looks as though he could have backed onto the tarmac area and maybe rolled back
It came out on the tarmac but it went in before it, you can see the tyre marks on the grass as you drive past but didnt get any pics of where it went in… And the cab was wrecked, it obviously hit the wall at speed…
No link (probably because it was a only 2-sentence filler) but I presume this is the incident that was in our local bog-roll back-up on Monday.
“A lorry was blown off the A66 in high winds near Stainmore at about 11.30pm on Saturday. The driver was cut free from his cab and taken to hospital - condition unknown.”
very lucky
