Two police officers were taken to hospital after a police car and a lorry crashed
A police car involved in a collision which left two people injured was stationary when it was hit by a lorry.
Police said the Ford Mondeo stopped to deal with a breakdown on the westbound A8 between Langbank and Port Glasgow in Inverclyde at about 14:30 on Thursday.
It was struck from behind by a lorry which then crashed through the central barrier onto the opposing carriageway.
A 33-year-old police officer and a 57-year-old colleague from another agency needed hospital treatment.
The traffic officer and his colleague from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency were taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock, where they were treated for minor injuries and released.
Snow falling
The 28-year-old lorry driver was also taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital, but did not require any treatment.
The police car was badly damaged in the collision, which happened while snow was falling in the area.
Both carriageways were closed for several hours while inquiries into the crash were carried out.
Strathclyde Police said an investigation was under way to establish the exact cause of the crash.
dts:
We all profess to be professional drivers, but did the driver adjust his/her speed to the road conditions?
We all are professional drivers.
If you do something for a living, then you are a professional something. It is your profession. You could bake dog turds and sell them as ornaments, if that is what you do for a living then you are a professional dog turd baker.
dts:
We all profess to be professional drivers, but did the driver adjust his/her speed to the road conditions?
We all are professional drivers.
If you do something for a living, then you are a professional something. It is your profession. You could bake dog turds and sell them as ornaments, if that is what you do for a living then you are a professional dog turd baker.
Not quite Harry, the term “professional” does actually have a standard set of qualifying criteria in the english language, very few of which would apply to the average lorry driver.
dts:
We all profess to be professional drivers, but did the driver adjust his/her speed to the road conditions?
We all are professional drivers.
If you do something for a living, then you are a professional something. It is your profession. You could bake dog turds and sell them as ornaments, if that is what you do for a living then you are a professional dog turd baker.
Not quite Harry, the term “professional” does actually have a standard set of qualifying criteria in the english language, very few of which would apply to the average lorry driver.
Would they apply to the average dog turd baker though?
Coffeeholic:
Would they apply to the average dog turd baker though?
I’ve never met a dog turd baker as far as I know, however I have met plenty of truck drivers.
On that basis I can only assume that a dog turd baker is far more likely to meet the criteria of being a professional, as I don’t believe it possible to find a less professional bunch than the average truck drivers of the world.
Coffeeholic:
Would they apply to the average dog turd baker though?
I’ve never met a dog turd baker as far as I know, however I have met plenty of truck drivers.
On that basis I can only assume that a dog turd baker is far more likely to meet the criteria of being a professional, as I don’t believe it possible to find a less professional bunch than the average truck drivers of the world.
can’t work out what thats got to do with the original post as there is no hard shoulder where this accident happened and looking at the pics posted the police and i would say highways agency and not vosa where protecting lane 1 for a broken down vehicle, which can happen to any of us on any due carridgeway in the country
Not that the above occurred on the hard shoulder, but I saw somewhere last week that the average life expectancy for someone on the hard shoulder of a motorway is 30 minutes! I personally find it hard to believe that even statistically, averaged out, that that is accurate as it seems to me that, for that to occur, vehicles (presumably lorries) must be covering every inch of all hard shoulders at least every hour to have a chance of hitting anything at that rate, unless they are somehow attracted to vehicles halted on the hard shoulder.
Snudger:
Not that the above occurred on the hard shoulder, but I saw somewhere last week that the average life expectancy for someone on the hard shoulder of a motorway is 30 minutes! I personally find it hard to believe that even statistically, averaged out, that that is accurate as it seems to me that, for that to occur, vehicles (presumably lorries) must be covering every inch of all hard shoulders at least every hour to have a chance of hitting anything at that rate, unless they are somehow attracted to vehicles halted on the hard shoulder.
I heard it was 11 minutes, but you can leave a car there 2 days and nowt will happen or as you pull on the H/S and someone may just follow on straight behing you, just that lorries tend to be bigger and to make more of a mess, there’s also a lot more of them hugging/drifting the white line in convoy while doing other ‘stuff’ with their eyes/hands to relieve the boredom ?
can’t work out what thats got to do with the original post as there is no hard shoulder where this accident happened and looking at the pics posted the police and i would say highways agency and not vosa where protecting lane 1 for a broken down vehicle, which can happen to any of us on any due carridgeway in the country
no highways agency in scotland, the police would have shut lane 1
can’t work out what thats got to do with the original post as there is no hard shoulder where this accident happened and looking at the pics posted the police and i would say highways agency and not vosa where protecting lane 1 for a broken down vehicle, which can happen to any of us on any due carridgeway in the country
no highways agency in scotland, the police would have shut lane 1
What about the Amey Highway Incident Support Units?
If it was that dangerous and life-threatening to stop on the hard shoulder then the motorway police wouldn’t stop you there just because they saw you driving in a straight line and eating a Cornish Pasty.
Harry Monk:
If it was that dangerous and life-threatening to stop on the hard shoulder then the motorway police wouldn’t stop you there just because they saw you driving in a straight line and eating a Cornish Pasty.
youre just being silly now harry. where can you buy a cornish pasty in scotland
