Be careful where you drop em!
Fair point, I wonder if dropped trailers need marker lights/signs like skips on the roadside need? and what about waggon and drag trailers dumped in lay-bys?
Should be lit up and facing the right direction.
chester:
Fair point, I wonder if dropped trailers need marker lights/signs like skips on the roadside need? and what about waggon and drag trailers dumped in lay-bys?
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.
Laws RVLR reg 24 & CUR reg 82(7)
Gouls:
chester:
Fair point, I wonder if dropped trailers need marker lights/signs like skips on the roadside need? and what about waggon and drag trailers dumped in lay-bys?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.
Laws RVLR reg 24 & CUR reg 82(7)
The problem is it’s so widely flouted to be meaningless. By this definition a lot of transit sized vans parked on residential streets would need to leave side lights on.
I guess some Industrial estates are private roads and maybe exempt but an awful lot are littered with parked trailers 24/7.
Hope they bill the 4x4 driver for any damage to the trailer.
Probably a bird on the school run.
Ken.
Is that a lamp post next to the trailer? Should have gone to specsavers!
Quinny:
Probably a bird on the school run.
Well if the article linked is right I would think that unlikely as firstly it happened at 6am and secondly the woman who was trapped was a passenger, a bloke was driving…
Paul
Someone’s going to be in trouble for this I reckon. They’ll make an example of whoever a trailer it is to send out a warning to others.
they shouldn’t be driving.
The trailer should have been dropped in the correct direction, so if someone did hit it, they hit the bumper.
However, the onus should always be, do not hit a stationary object
I fear an example will be made of the trailer owner…Just so we can save even more stupid people from Darwins law 
There should be an IQ test if you want a driving license…Anyone found with an IQ of less than 100 should be sterilised or shot.
Yes, I am IQ`ist. 
Weren’t the Police giving tickets out to trucks parked on the A15 the other week that didn’t have their lights on ?
I contemplated leaving my sidelights on last Wednesday. I parked in a small service station but all the lights weren’t working and it was dark. The lorry parking bays are on the way out and were all full and I only had 1 minute left of a 15hr but could squeeze in across the back of the other trucks who were all parked up for the night. It was howling with wind and rain and pitch black but decided not to leave the lights on incase the battery couldn’t take them being on with the heater for 9 hours. It’s a 61 plated truck, so do you think it would have been ok ?
You can actually buy bicycle led lights that flash for around £4 at Aldi, whether after attatching them to the trailer and leaving them flashing they would still be there come the time to move again is anyones guess.
Kerbdog:
You can actually buy bicycle led lights that flash for around £4 at Aldi, whether after attatching them to the trailer and leaving them flashing they would still be there come the time to move again is anyones guess.
it’s cheaper to nick some from the roadworks.
I don’t think it would have made any difference if it was 1pm on a summers day the ■■■■■ probably would have still hit it.
when i drove for imr transport, i was parked up one sunday nite outside asda’s outside storage depot, on crabtree manorway road, erith. just sat on the bunk watching tv when there was an all mighty bang. looking out of the window, was the reminance of a left hand drive vauxhall opel, with one of our eastern european friends ■■■■■■ up at the wheel. very scary. i thought he was dead, but he got out muttering those polish words nobody understands. the rossers arested him, and were very sympathetic towards me. there were lights on the street and they were ok with me parking there, as they reconised the area as where hgv’s parked. 
FarnboroughBoy11:
I don’t think it would have made any difference if it was 1pm on a summers day the ■■■■■ probably would have still hit it.
Haha, was it. What a tool. I only saw the picture. Just goes to show you doesn’t it !!!
Quite a few years ago my dad used to bring his 7.5tonner home, late one night a stolen car crashed into the back of it. There was was an unmarked police car behind him too but he had only just started to follow the stolen car unbeknown to the robber. The copper was following at a distance and turned into the road were we lived and the guy had gone into the back of the lorry. When taking a statement from my dad he winked at my dad when he asked him “You did park with the sidelights showing didn’t you”.
Acknowledging the silly/illegal parking of the trailer, there has to be a large element of careless driving here??
There was a street light illuminating the front of the trailer so surely anybody paying attention and taking the bend at an appropriate speed would have seen it and stopped?
Obviously I dont know all of the factors but its food for thought.
coreysboys:
Acknowledging the silly/illegal parking of the trailer, there has to be a large element of careless driving here??There was a street light illuminating the front of the trailer so surely anybody paying attention and taking the bend at an appropriate speed would have seen it and stopped?
Obviously I dont know all of the factors but its food for thought.
Even the comments in the newspaper recognise this area as a place where there are a lot of parked trailers and light industry. If the haulier has been crafty and got the trailer shifted, there may be nothing done, there is no registration plate on a trailer 