Not uncommon to see a drawbar trailer left in these laybys but they’re never lit or marked up. The road is a NSL dual carriageway. Hope the Co-op driver is OK.
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m1cks:
TNET UK CSI - do your worst
It would appear from the photo that the unattended trailer was parked horizontally across lane 1 and the layby. The co-op driver wouldn’t have stood a chance.
ezydriver:
It would appear from the photo that the unattended trailer was parked horizontally across lane 1 and the layby. The co-op driver wouldn’t have stood a chance.
The impact would have moved the trailer. You’ll never make it into the CSI.
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ezydriver:
It would appear from the photo that the unattended trailer was parked horizontally across lane 1 and the layby. The co-op driver wouldn’t have stood a chance.The impact would have moved the trailer. You’ll never make it into the CSI.
Not necessarily, for I have witnessed many a trailer parked at perpendicular angles.
ezydriver:
for I have witnessed many a trailer parked at perpendicular angles
Really 
ezydriver:
Contraflow:
ezydriver:
It would appear from the photo that the unattended trailer was parked horizontally across lane 1 and the layby. The co-op driver wouldn’t have stood a chance.The impact would have moved the trailer. You’ll never make it into the CSI.
Not necessarily, for I have witnessed many a trailer parked at perpendicular angles.
you havent never seen a trailer parked like that in a layby
I hereby hand the case onto more competent investigators. I can’t say I didn’t try my best.
ezydriver:
I hereby hand the case onto more competent investigators. I can’t say I didn’t try my best.
You can’t but I can, That was not your best, in fact, that was just plain awful 
ezydriver:
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ezydriver:
It would appear from the photo that the unattended trailer was parked horizontally across lane 1 and the layby. The co-op driver wouldn’t have stood a chance.The impact would have moved the trailer. You’ll never make it into the CSI.
Not necessarily…
You don’t honestly believe the trailer was left parked like that, do you? 
Would love to see the drivers face when he returns for the drag. Either the trailer would be gone or if put back in the layby he will think its the worst case of curtain slashing ever
Surely I’m not the only one who gets a little annoyed when they’re short on hours and the nearest layby’s partly blocked because of an unattended trailer? Even more so when the driver cones off most of the remaining space. There was one dumped in a layby near our quarry a while back, coned off for nearly two days. Didn’t stop us parking on the cones…
I couldn’t be sure without looking up the relevant regulations, but does anyone else think the owner of the trailer would be on a bit of a sticky wicket?
I don’t think that it’s strictly legal to drop a trailer in a lay-by, which is legally part of the highway:
- It’s not a motor vehicle.
- It has no road fund licence.
- It probably carries no Third Party Insurance.
Therefore, it’s just an obstruction and so has no business being left there at all.
And TNCSI’s response is?
ROF, the crash was around 7am so it wasnt fully light. The trailers are often left in one of the laybys on that stretch of road while the driver goes off to deliver to store. I have never seen any of them marked up or with lighting. Theres been a lot of publicity with Norfolk police issuing tickets to vehicles without side lights when not in 30mph so I wonder if Sussex Police will go for a prosceution here.
That still doesnt explain how the Co-op driver managed to hit the trailer unless a, he was sleepy, b, a medical issue, c, he underestimated the sweep of the right hand bend as you go down the hill
And they left the coop lorry sat like that all day waiting until midnight to close the road to recover it. If anyone needs a scania door, its still lying where it is in the photo.
It’s been “custom & practice” to drop trailers in lay-bys as far back as I can remember but maybe we will now get some sort of clarity if Sussex plod are willing to run with it. Worth keeping an eye on the local newspapers if anyone’s in that area.
I always love the cliche-ridden headlines in these local rags. The fact that one lane remained open is hardly cause for "misery"is it 
Speedy recovery.
m1cks:
ROF, the crash was around 7am so it wasnt fully light. The trailers are often left in one of the laybys on that stretch of road while the driver goes off to deliver to store. I have never seen any of them marked up or with lighting. Theres been a lot of publicity with Norfolk police issuing tickets to vehicles without side lights when not in 30mph so I wonder if Sussex Police will go for a prosceution here.
Can you clarify what class of vehicle they have been targeting?
A great many commercial vehicle drivers wrongly believe the 30mph speed limit parking lights exemption applies to them.
Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 1525 kg unladen weight, invalid carriages, motorcycles and pedal cycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) or less if they are at least 10 metres (32 feet) away from any junction, close to the kerb and facing in the direction of the traffic flow in a recognised parking place or lay-by.
Other vehicles and trailers, and all vehicles with projecting loads, MUST NOT be left on a road at night without lights.
So OK the trl should have been lit, however it is still likely to be driven into by someone who is not looking where they are going.
Sorry it was Suffolk police I was thinking of. Regardless of HGV drivers thinking (incorrectly) that its ok in 30moh areas, this was a NSL dual carriageway where the layby was not seperated by a central divide.
Heres link to Suffolk police campaign - suffolk.police.uk/newsandeve … eseen.aspx
Ah I see now it was indeed HGV’s they were targeting - in high summer with minimum hours of darkness 
Thanks for the link.
i reckon it was this driver that left the trailer parked like that