the driver of the 30 ton tipper from clive warcup haulage garton,driffield east yorkshire was very lucky to survive the crash,scratches n stomach pains,40 years in the industry,warcup recieved an award from the queen recently,not commenting on the crash because i know the owner and hes a nice gentleman,just relieved the driver of the truck is ok.
rickykirk:
0the driver of the 30 ton tipper from clive warcup haulage garton,driffield east yorkshire was very lucky to survive the crash,scratches n stomach pains,40 years in the industry,warcup recieved an award from the queen recently,not commenting on the crash because i know the owner and hes a nice gentleman,just relieved the driver of the truck is ok.0
He was lucky to get out of that one.Its a 44 ton artic bulk tipper.
Cheers Dave.
That’ll be the 28t of animal feed on the ground that Radio 5 were telling people about then…
Dave the Renegade:
rickykirk:
0the driver of the 30 ton tipper from clive warcup haulage garton,driffield east yorkshire was very lucky to survive the crash,scratches n stomach pains,40 years in the industry,warcup recieved an award from the queen recently,not commenting on the crash because i know the owner and hes a nice gentleman,just relieved the driver of the truck is ok.0He was lucky to get out of that one.Its a 44 ton artic bulk tipper.
Cheers Dave.
thanks for that weight correction dave,looking at the pic its a good job there were no passengers or it would of been a tragedy
marky:
That’ll be the 28t of animal feed on the ground that Radio 5 were telling people about then…
when i first saw the pic i thought it was the spellowgate bridge on the outskirts of driffield but the papers say on the A64 malton flyover,the bridge on the pic is identical to the spellowgate laybye bridge.
rickykirk:
marky:
That’ll be the 28t of animal feed on the ground that Radio 5 were telling people about then…when i first saw the pic i thought it was the spellowgate bridge on the outskirts of driffield but the papers say on the A64 malton flyover,the bridge on the pic is identical to the spellowgate laybye bridge.
Someone told me about this crash the other day and said the cab and trailer were sliced in half i thought he was going over the top a little bit but hell that driver must have used a few lives there
I remember a similar incident on the A1M near Durham quite a few years ago now but this had a more tragic outcome, I still don’t think any conclusion was given as to how it happened, falling asleep usually gets blamed when nothing else fits. There is a phenomenon known about where vehicles can get drawn into rearending other vehicles either broken down or stopped on the hardshoulder, in the cold light of day this seems unlikely but it does happen with some regularity and again the reason can only be guessed at. This type of collision could be similar. At least in this case the driver should be able to give an account of what happened. Franky.
I bet that made a bang 
Who would’ve thought the driver could walk away from that 
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’d ever drive a lorry again after that, I don’t think you’d ever get two shots at luck like that 
posted about this the other day…
newmercman:
I bet that made a bangWho would’ve thought the driver could walk away from that
i fully agree with you mate and i do believe in fate,i believe things like this are giving you some kind of warning,i feel very sorry for the driver and his family,obviously the driver is probably still in terrible shock and will never get over this,if you look on my post by tomorrow tea ill post a black n white pic on here of my dads erf he was killed in back in 1979 and ill put the details on here,lots of drivers will find the outcome unbelievable n very interesting.work calls so ill post the stuff on here tomorrow morning
newmercman:
I bet that made a bangWho would’ve thought the driver could walk away from that
Hiya …i had a bit of bad luck in 1980 i rolled a MAN 8 legger off the road in deep snow(20 tons of cast iron)on the back.
the company sent out a artic and trailer, 10 of us got the scrap back onto the trailer(out of the snow) my mates said carry
on we’ll go home in the van. the V reg MAN was a rite off and i aquired a 72…K ,reg Atki.never rolled another.
there was a adams butter driver run a ergo AEC into some girders on the M1, they cut off the girders and took him with
the steel sticking out back and front of him to Luton hospital where they opperated on him… 3 years later he was doing
Leek/ London trunk again on the same job.
John
Hi rickykirk, I’m glad you said that because I too thought it was Spellowgate bridge, its not more than 2 mile from my home ! Regards Tony H.
newmercman:
I bet that made a bangWho would’ve thought the driver could walk away from that
Looks like 56 to 0 in half a second, I would walk away from the job forever.
This happened so close to my house I’m surprised I didn’t hear the bang. Local papers full of it, lucky guy