A TRACTOR and trailer has shed a load of hay bales in Leominster.
Emergency services were called to Bargates at around 10.15am to reports that a tractor and trailer had been involved in a collision.
Two fire engines and an ultra heavy appliance from Hereford are at the scene and crews are working with local farmers to find the best way to remove the load from the road.
Initial fears that someone could be trapped beneath the hay bales have been ruled out and no one is believed to have been injured.
Nearby Dishley Street is currently closed in both directions and there is congestion throughout the town.
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
Sadly a LGV and DCPC won’t stop them driving like [zb] idiots Dave. It’s a brain disorder As you said right outside the chip shop, doesn’t bear thinking about.
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
You mean a test to drive something that they don’t use, artics being of little use on fields this time of year, and this despite the fact that they’ve probably been driving drawbar tractors off-road since their feet could touch the pedals; and a “qualification” which realistically does not teach anything about anything we don’t know already.
Can you please explain to me how that is going to stop anybody tipping a trailer over, especially since, as you well know yourself, HGV’s can and do go over on that junction too?
If it had been an artic loaded with straw you’d probably be blaming the road camber.
kitbuilder123:
Looks like load security is spot on, all seems to be still secure on the trailer
Is that because its against a wall the bales look to be apart as if no straps on at all
They look like big square bales as they call them round here, so I would suggest they are strapped otherwise once the trailer went past 45 degrees the top layer would’ve slid off.
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
You mean a test to drive something that they don’t use, artics being of little use on fields this time of year, and this despite the fact that they’ve probably been driving drawbar tractors off-road since their feet could touch the pedals; and a “qualification” which realistically does not teach anything about anything we don’t know already.
Can you please explain to me how that is going to stop anybody tipping a trailer over, especially since, as you well know yourself, HGV’s can and do go over on that junction too?
If it had been an artic loaded with straw you’d probably be blaming the road camber.
Most of the tractors in Herefordshire spend more time on the roads than in fields. Also the fact that the gross weight of a tractor and trailer is going up to 31 ton. Legislation should be brought in for the licencing of the drivers with a suitable qualification, other than a car licence or the simple tractor test which is a farce. All road going tractors should also have inspections with an annual test the same as LGV vehicles.
I have lived in a rural area alll my life, and its a totally different world nowadays to what it was 40 years ago when tractors travelled short distances to access various fields around the farm
These day tractors are traveling hundreds of miles in a week when harvesting potatoes or grain, also hauling from chicken sheds etc.
I do not recall many artics going over at the Bargates in Leominster, but there has been several incidents with tractors there.
Dave the Renegade:
Most of the tractors in Herefordshire spend more time on the roads than in fields. Also the fact that the gross weight of a tractor and trailer is going up to 31 ton. Legislation should be brought in for the licencing of the drivers with a suitable qualification, other than a car licence or the simple tractor test which is a farce. All road going tractors should also have inspections with an annual test the same as LGV vehicles.
I have lived in a rural area alll my life, and its a totally different world nowadays to what it was 40 years ago when tractors travelled short distances to access various fields around the farm
These day tractors are traveling hundreds of miles in a week when harvesting potatoes or grain, also hauling from chicken sheds etc.
I do not recall many artics going over at the Bargates in Leominster, but there has been several incidents with tractors there.
A proposal currently being discussed for tractors addresses many of the issues you mention; ISTR that a link to it was on here somewhere. the general consensus from farmers was that they were in favour of more stringent testing for both vehicles and operators.
I do agree that it is a different ball-game these days, but on the other hand the modern tractor is a different beast altogether from the old Fergusons and Fordsons of our youth, somewhat faster and far better braked for a start. As we both know, one of the primary reasons for tractors doing increased road mileage is because of agricultural contractors moving from farm to farm, whereas in olden days the tractors would pretty much stay on the farm itself. That’s inevitable and we’ll just have to live with it.
Driver-Once-More:
looking at the bales, there appears to be a gap between the bales, so, not strapped down.
Look closer, above the road sign bolted to the railing, and you can just see the ratchet to the left of the gap, it appears to be hooked to the trailer between the left corner and number plate. The gap is consistent with the bales moving on impact with the road.
Dave the Renegade:
A TRACTOR and trailer has shed a load of hay bales in Leominster.
Emergency services were called to Bargates at around 10.15am to reports that a tractor and trailer had been involved in a collision.
Two fire engines and an ultra heavy appliance from Hereford are at the scene and crews are working with local farmers to find the best way to remove the load from the road.
Initial fears that someone could be trapped beneath the hay bales have been ruled out and no one is believed to have been injured.
Nearby Dishley Street is currently closed in both directions and there is congestion throughout the town.
Just shows how close the tractor driver was to receiving a very serious charge, had the chip shop been open, or if people had been on the street at the time.
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
Sadly a LGV and DCPC won’t stop them driving like [zb] idiots Dave. It’s a brain disorder As you said right outside the chip shop, doesn’t bear thinking about.
its hardly changed the haulage industry has it , only have to look at the low bridge thread to see that
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
Sadly a LGV and DCPC won’t stop them driving like f"^k"*g idiots Dave. It’s a brain disorder As you said right outside the chip shop, doesn’t bear thinking about.
Dave the Renegade:
The shop the trailer is against is a chip shop. If that had happened two hours later someone would have been killed. LGV and DCPC for these drivers should be law.
You mean a test to drive something that they don’t use, artics being of little use on fields this time of year, and this despite the fact that they’ve probably been driving drawbar tractors off-road since their feet could touch the pedals; and a “qualification” which realistically does not teach anything about anything we don’t know already.
Can you please explain to me how that is going to stop anybody tipping a trailer over, especially since, as you well know yourself, HGV’s can and do go over on that junction too?
If it had been an artic loaded with straw you’d probably be blaming the road camber.
As you said right outside the chip shop, doesn’t bear thinking about.
