A Maritime artic, somehow, Christ knows how, managed to get himself stuck on the steep hairpin bend on dog lane which runs parallel to the bottom of Crickley Hill/Birdlip.
Now to get there, requires the navigation of some pretty tight lanes, and the passing of several signs that clearly state there is no access onto the A417, which is what I assume he was trying to achieve.
Why and how we will never know, but I bet his boss loved that. As I passed a wrecker was winching him backwards, presumably for the mile or so length of the lane he had already driven up.
Even he got up the hairpin, he wouldn’t have got past the houses further along. Usually cars parked on the road up there and is a pain getting though in a car.
I’m guessing he thought he could enter the A417 at the gate just before the bend. That’s been blocked off for many years, only opened in the last few years to allow a low loader with an aircraft on the back to get to the old Bentham factory, as it wouldn’t fit under the bridge.
However rather than stopping when he saw the blocked gate, he decided to crack on.
