Plymouth bound this morning there was a DAF on the opp carriageway stopped with a car behind it,.a load of Police cars and guys out with cameras on tri pods, couldn’t really see any damage, but didn’t get a good look tbh.
The road Exeter bound is closed, they are diverting traffic through N.Abbot, and they reckon on the radio that it will be so for a few hours yet.
Anybody know what happened.
A fatality, appears that a driver of a car suffered a heart attack and rear ended a parked Hgv in a layby. m.devonlive.com/serious-accident … story.html. Those lay-bys with no curb separation are dangerous places. Rip driver.
Artic still sat in lay by with damaged left hand rear corner about an hour ago.
That young lad was only in his 20s, I can empathise with his parents having 2 lads myself of a similar age.
Do not want to capitalise on a point about parking on the back of that poor lad at all. However this is another example of why unsuitable lay bys directly adjacent to a main road, with no verge separation, should be illegal for trucks to overnight park on, with more suitable roadside parking places provided for overnight parking instead.
Especially the ones where some idiots feel the need to pull in their mirrors, that do not realise that in reality it is their brain trying to tell them that it is unsafe to park there in the first place. 
Just imagine what sight confronted the poor Hgv driver at 3.20 am .
Living down this end it has been on the radio, and like Robroy I have kids similar age so it hits home a bit. Condolences to his family
However this is another example of why unsuitable lay bys directly adjacent to a main road, with no verge separation, should be illegal for trucks to overnight park on, with more suitable roadside parking places provided for overnight parking instead.
Especially the ones where some idiots feel the need to pull in their mirrors, that do not realise that in reality it is their brain trying to tell them that it is unsafe to park there in the first place.
I agree with this entirely, and these laybys need to be for breakdown/emergency only. I had a lucky escape a few years ago when I was out re tensioning chains on a machine in a layby, so now avoid stopping at all in them.
Until more areas are available for parking this is a long way off though.
I don’t see how a massive amount of laybys can’t be made deeper and a separation put in.
Actually I can, money and the fact the useless clowns that masquerade as workers over here would take 6 months of 20 mile narrowed lanes, overnight closures with no notice and 4,607 health and safety updates to get one done.
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