Must have been awful to watch sat at the lights as it probably toppled in what seems like slow motion. TNCSI will investigate I’m sure but foot-down Friday, trying to beat the lights, downhill and off-camber will all be contributory factors I’m sure. RIP the driver of the car!
Staniel:
Must have been awful to watch sat at the lights as it probably toppled in what seems like slow motion. TNCSI will investigate I’m sure but foot-down Friday, trying to beat the lights, downhill and off-camber will all be contributory factors I’m sure. RIP the driver of the car!
All the above. And he’s a skip driver. Always chasing around, with top heavy bins. Probably on his phone too.
I don’t usually partake of the TNCSI, but to me that road looked perfectly flat and like it happened on a straight stretch, there appears to be a junction further on but he was nowhere near turning, residential too so you would not expect speed to be a factor, and not a tall enough skip-vehicle combo to be particularly unstable.
Regardless, a bad day for all concerned.
I had a look on google maps
looks downhill to the lights and off camber at the junction to mw
I know this junction very well indeed, Frindsbury rd which the lorry was coming down is actually quite a steep hill, and Station rd into which the lorry was turning left, has a camber or slope only slighty less than the hill.
Zac_A:
not a tall enough skip-vehicle combo to be particularly unstable.
Regardless, a bad day for all concerned.
Looks like it’s filled with earth and rubble/ masonry and that isn’t a low earth and rubble type bin.Possibly even thrown on top of a much lighter part bulk refuse load.
assuming the lorry was comeing from the sansperie past the esso station and turning left into station road i dont get how the car was squashed by the lorry falling on it as the camber there points towards the substation/ pavement