I’m a big believer in not wasting the emergency services time and resources and with this bad weather there have been more than a few wagons blown over/come off the road and demand must be high for these services.
I have seen four wagons off the road in the last 24 hours A1 north x2, M61 and this morning on the M180. Two of these accidents were “off the road” on the grass banks/ditch, they had no lights on the unit or trailer but there were no police aware signs to say they had delt with the accident but just hadn’t cleaned it up yet. Should I ring it in incase they don’t know it’s happened the M180 was absolutely dead, is it possible that the wagon came off the road and no one saw it?
Kind a call too much like one too little. In this case this would be my personal attitude.Do you stop and looked if someone needs help?If it´s possible to stop there…
Use the non emergency 101 number. If they already kniw about it they dont need to do anything so nobodys time is wasted. If they dont know, they’ll most probably go and check it out and put a police aware sticker on it.
You are legally allowed to make a 999 call whilst on the move.
Edit… If I were to pass an upturned vehicle without any first response aid present, then I would do something. Something is better Than nothing 999/911.
Then again, Iam he same person who picked up burger king wrappers on the way into the services today, and placed them in the bin.
Some folks do, some folks don’t.
I would have called it in, they need to check it out & mark it with a ‘Police Aware’ sticker any way, or they’ll be wasting their own 999 lines with people calling it in for the next 5 hours.
If it was safe enough I would have stopped & checked it out, you never know if it had only happened a few seconds before & the driver was lying unconscious in the cab.
martinviking:
I would have called it in, they need to check it out & mark it with a ‘Police Aware’ sticker any way, or they’ll be wasting their own 999 lines with people calling it in for the next 5 hours.
If it was safe enough I would have stopped & checked it out, you never know if it had only happened a few seconds before & the driver was lying unconscious in the cab.
Exactly^^^^^
If you were to stop, to check an upturned vehicle, then Also check a good perimeter around incase driver/passenger has been flung out.
The Bibbys motor on the M180 has been there since yesterday, probably because Bibbys are too tight to pay for recovery. Given that the lights were out was a pretty good clue that it had not just happened, also, there were cones around it tonight.
Truckbling:
The Bibbys motor on the M180 has been there since yesterday, probably because Bibbys are too tight to pay for recovery. Given that the lights were out was a pretty good clue that it had not just happened, also, there were cones around it tonight.
The cones were not there when I went by mate, like you say the lights were out on it though which is why I thought it had happened yesterday, just things in my head saying if the electric suzies had broken there would be no lights and the poor bogger could still be in there, like I said there was no sign anyone had attended it before, same with the Wilkos one on the A1 north yesterday.
One of the reasons HA and Police have ‘aware’ stickers is that we don’t get repeated calls for an incident we have attended. I would call, better to have a wasted call than have a driver trapped in a vehicle with people passing thinking that if has been reported.
There have been reports of people trapped in cars for days, in bad weather, so i definitely would stop, you never know, might get the chance to grab a wallet ok ok
Why cant the motorway wombles (highways agency bods) be allocated to cone these incidents off to alert us and the general public that the incident has been dealt with?
It would save clogging the emergency lines.
I had a call from our depot to say where I was parked there was a pool of oil in the region of my rear diff so I stopped on the hard shoulder of the M62 about junction 10 and before I got out the passenger side of the cab a womble (a term of endearment ) car was there…doing their job and nice enough chaps, I explained and did another check under the truck and all was fine.
As my first paragraph implies would they be better deployed in hot spot weather areas in this turbulent few months?
The bibbys on the m180 went over Wednesday, it was coned Wednesday night twice yesterday went past still coned off, and twice tonight I went past it was coned, on the way back at 10pm they had shut the east bound and pulled it upright with a wrecker.
Drift:
Yer I know they need to cover the whole network
& there’s only 10 after all !
Great Uncle Bulgaria — the oldest and wisest of the Wimbledon Wombles. Tobermory — an engineer, a skilled inventor. Orinoco — a shirker who loved sleep and food. Bungo — over-enthusiastic and bossy. Tomsk — an athletic Womble with a rather low IQ. Wellington — scientifically inclined, but very insecure and absent-minded. Madame Cholet — a prim and proper female Womble. The Womble cook. (or should that be ■■■■ ) Miss Adelaide — schoolmistress, named after the city of Adelaide in Australia. Alderney — Madame Cholet’s assistant. Snodgrass — the acting accountant of the wombles, known for her foul smell and habit of wagging her tail when she is lying. (or pretending to give out a wage rise in one hand but stealing it back with the other one )
extrucker:
One of the reasons HA and Police have ‘aware’ stickers is that we don’t get repeated calls for an incident we have attended. I would call, better to have a wasted call than have a driver trapped in a vehicle with people passing thinking that if has been reported.
This imo. Personally I’d have either called or stopped if safe to do so. You could just save someones life.
I personally stop at accidents/incidents if there’s no emergency service presence.
Sometimes it’s a matter if checking if everyone is ok and asking is emergency services are aware
Sometimes it’s a matter of first aid and calling.
I’ve stopped when old bill have been present to offer assistance (pulled cars out is hedges with my Landy a few times),cut up a tree with a chainsaw to help a female old bill move it off the road, helped a bloke right a casualty motorbike cos no one else would.
Generally it’s met with thanks.
Would I call in this situation? Yes on the 101 number.
I would want someone to do it for me if I was stuck.
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) car was there…doing their job and nice enough chaps, I explained and did another check under the truck and all was fine.
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