damoq:
yourhavingalarf:
Pingle Lane…Just hunting around with Google maps, is the closest I can get to the bridge shown in the pics. But, it’s such an obvious no-no from the main road that makes me doubt it.
Anyone know exactly which one has been clonked?
bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-engla … e-47251322
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Yep if you go right to the end of the road (a long long way) it has a 7.5t weight limit on it.
Now up to £2.6m!
Apparently driver was on a divert with M6 southbound shut due to a RTA and only had a car sat nav. 
Sand Fisher:
Now up to £2.6m!Apparently driver was on a divert with M6 southbound shut due to a RTA and only had a car sat nav.
So he must have left at 15, then he’s got a long way without thinking he’d better pull up and check the route seeing as he’s following a car sat sav. Probably A34 was moving slow if it was shut for an accident so the sat navs live traffic routing took him that way.
Sand Fisher:
Now up to £2.6m!Apparently driver was on a divert with M6 southbound shut due to a RTA and only had a car sat nav.
Like all rail…
Projects, the origional quote is always about half the total of what the real cost is. HS2 and the Channel Tunnel being prime examples.
DickyNick:
So he must have left at 15, then he’s got a long way without thinking he’d better pull up and check the route seeing as he’s following a car sat sav. Probably A34 was moving slow if it was shut for an accident so the sat navs live traffic routing took him that way.
It’s actually…
A good little short cut in a car. But it’s clearly marked as a 7.5 ton limit way before he got to the bridge. Having said that, he could have reversed about quarter of a mile and spun it, gone back and saved someone a £2.6 million bill.
How do you do that much damage “unknowingly”?
Ian58:
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Like the pictures above, Gist would be close to collapse if their drivers kept doing things like that. 
There’s a bridge over a river near where I live that has a similar curve at either side as that one here, it probably gets the wall knocked down at least twice a year by the tail end of artics because it’s really tight. There’s no weight limit or length limit or unsuitable for a HGVs though so unless they make it more suitable then ■■■■ em.
Sand Fisher:
Now up to £2.6m!Apparently driver was on a divert with M6 southbound shut due to a RTA and only had a car sat nav.
Gist don’t allow sat nav’s to be used they give you a map
I often drive over a narrow twisty bridge . The lorries and buses all manage with care ,but cars bash into it on a regular basis. I once asked the repair crew if they could just fix it with LEGO ,they were not amused.
Picklehoffer:
How do you do that much damage “unknowingly”?
The physical damage probably runs into many thousands, - truck and bridge parapet - but its the train delays that rack up the bills.
Although a big rail supporter the modern regime is a lawyer’s dream. Your train arrives at this bridge and effectively the service is gubbed. Sixty other trains are gubbed too. That is a hellova lot of ‘delay’ minutes. And who is it all attributed to? The firm whose driver hit the bridge. Mega liability.
animal:
Sand Fisher:
Now up to £2.6m!Apparently driver was on a divert with M6 southbound shut due to a RTA and only had a car sat nav.
Gist don’t allow sat nav’s to be used they give you a map
Really? Not at Motherwell they don’t.
If you look at Google streetview, you can clearly see that this bridge is hit on a regular basis:
goo.gl/maps/1t7G2GyiPPx