iDriver:
Juddian:
I’d be interested to know how many of these bridge strikes are sat nav directed.I’m willing to bet this one wasn’t
Good shop steward get him straight off that one, bridge to nowhere not marked… 
albion1971:
Yes anyone can make a mistake but a mistake like this is sheer incompetence.The driver is meant to be a professional and was driving a vehicle that is far higher than average.Consequently he should know and be aware of the maximum height of his vehicle or trailer.
Like a lot of accidents it was probably a lack of concentration.Mind on something else.
Totally unacceptable when driving an LGV.
Anyone else get that feeling of déjà vu 
Muckaway:
The driver was 73 as reported on BBC South Today. We go under that Bridge and it’s clearly signed in advance, so no excuses.
Talking of Lymington, can you access it from Lyndhurst without breaking the 7.5t limit in Lyndhurst? I know you can avoid it if travelling in the opposite direction due to the one way system.
How can you feel sorry for the driver? Did he not read the signs?
As others have said, if you come off the M27 @ Junc 3, down the M271 to the Redbridge Roundabout. Turn right and come into Lyndhurst that way you avoid the weight limit. It is only restricted from the traffic lights to the bottom end of the High Street.
stevieboy308:
Derf:
stevieboy308:
Derf:
If the numbers in the big red circle on the bridge are less than the numbers on your in cab height marker you do not proceed.
To do so is either stupidity or incompetence.
How can that be a mistake?The driver does not have to make a judgement, someone has already done that for him by putting a sign on the bridge telling him he’s prohibited from proceeding if he’s higher than it!
the same way you’re making the mistake of thinking that someone who has hit a bridge has made a conscious decision to drive under a bridge that is lower than their vehicle
Are you suggesting it drove itself under there with no human intervention?
not in the slightest fella, i’m suggesting that the vast majority of bridge strikes are down to a lapse in concentration, which every human suffers from every now and then.
i don’t believe there are many that see the bridge height, compare it with their height, think i’ll be close but carry on at full chat anyway
i worked for a firm in hull that had 3 main contracts, 2 in scunny, 1 in hull, i started working out of scunny on 1 contract pulling 13’11 trailers, then i started doing quite a lot on the hull contract doing tankers and 13’11 fridges, once a blue moon i’d do a run for the other scunny contract pulling 15 something trailers, sometimes delivering to the tanker / fridge place in hull which you normally went under a 14 something bridge to. the office would remind people to go the other way as they could see how a mistake might happen, i wasn’t offended as some might be as i too could see how someone might get it wrong.
To me it is negligence, not lapse of concentration, if that was so, trucks would be piling full tilt into width restrictions also, I actually believe these drivers do not know or understand the height of their truck and BAM!
moomooland:
Sorry but there is only one person to blame for all of the above
Hell! Just one person? Why do people keep employing him? Will they never learn?
JLS Driver SOS:
To me it is negligence, not lapse of concentration, if that was so, trucks would be piling full tilt into width restrictions also, I actually believe these drivers do not know or understand the height of their truck and BAM!
Erm talking about width restrictions
moomooland:
JLS Driver SOS:
To me it is negligence, not lapse of concentration, if that was so, trucks would be piling full tilt into width restrictions also, I actually believe these drivers do not know or understand the height of their truck and BAM!Erm talking about width restrictions
It is just amazing that this archway is still standing in LIncoln today!
Take care when driving round Lincoln!
Turbovision:
It is just amazing that this archway is still standing in LIncoln today!
Take care when driving round Lincoln!
Check next to the drivers door, someone is standing directly under those 2 x lumps that look ready to come down… ouch
Check next to the drivers door, someone is standing directly under those 2 x lumps that look ready to come down… ouch
And not wearing a hard hat either I bet.
Here is a another bridge bash that tipped a truck completely over.
It happened recently at Hunsbury, Northampton. The railway crosses the road at quite an oblique angle so the slicing impact of the roof with the bridge gave the truck a sideways push.
My mate had a cheek clenching moment near Old Oak Common at lunchtime; The sign said 12’8 so fine as the lorry’s 12’6. At the bridge the sign on the parapet says 12’6. It did go under with at least 3 inches to spare but either the some of the signs have been changed or more likely, someone doctored the “6” to read “8”.
dowahdiddyman:
How much longer can this go on before we get the 4m max height law.
When we get that EU legislation banning double deckers,(Or anything over 4 metres), banned,“Because they won’t go under bridges in Germany”!.
We have a low bridge in Stoke that was notorious for strikes by double deck buses,it’s like saying all double decker buses are banned in England because they won’t go under Glebe St. bridge in Stoke!
Bartrums also pull Grain wagons, maybe, just maybe the last user of that unit was pulling Grain (or whatever) and the height would have been lower, the unit was then used to pull Taughtliners and somewhere along the way the height marker didn’t get changed.
Sound logical??
They are a good Family business and have a decent fleet, btw they offer DCPC (TrumBar)
moomooland:
stevieboy308:
anyone can make a mistake, next time you have a near miss on some sort of [zb] up and say to yourself “that was close / that was lucky” that’s it, the majority of the time it’s luck which stops the near miss from being a [zb] up.The trouble is there are far to many so called mistakes!
There is absolutely no excuse for a professional driver hitting a bridge
I have drove double deckers and mega decks for years without an incident and you are always aware of its height
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how many is an acceptable amount then?
i’m not saying there is an excuse, i’m just pointing out that anyone can make a mistake. (although i am willing to exclude albion, as the exception that proves the rule)
whilst i’ve never pulled a dd, i pulled a 15’3 curtainsider for a couple of years without incident, as have the vast vast majority of drivers. maybe it’s less likely if you only pull tall trailers, over the once in a blue moon type of scenario i posted?
JLS Driver SOS:
stevieboy308:
Derf:
stevieboy308:
Derf:
If the numbers in the big red circle on the bridge are less than the numbers on your in cab height marker you do not proceed.
To do so is either stupidity or incompetence.
How can that be a mistake?The driver does not have to make a judgement, someone has already done that for him by putting a sign on the bridge telling him he’s prohibited from proceeding if he’s higher than it!
the same way you’re making the mistake of thinking that someone who has hit a bridge has made a conscious decision to drive under a bridge that is lower than their vehicle
Are you suggesting it drove itself under there with no human intervention?
not in the slightest fella, i’m suggesting that the vast majority of bridge strikes are down to a lapse in concentration, which every human suffers from every now and then.
i don’t believe there are many that see the bridge height, compare it with their height, think i’ll be close but carry on at full chat anyway
i worked for a firm in hull that had 3 main contracts, 2 in scunny, 1 in hull, i started working out of scunny on 1 contract pulling 13’11 trailers, then i started doing quite a lot on the hull contract doing tankers and 13’11 fridges, once a blue moon i’d do a run for the other scunny contract pulling 15 something trailers, sometimes delivering to the tanker / fridge place in hull which you normally went under a 14 something bridge to. the office would remind people to go the other way as they could see how a mistake might happen, i wasn’t offended as some might be as i too could see how someone might get it wrong.
To me it is negligence, not lapse of concentration, if that was so, trucks would be piling full tilt into width restrictions also, I actually believe these drivers do not know or understand the height of their truck and BAM!
i don’t think your comparison with width restrictions works, we are always judging width gaps and the vast majority of drivers can look at a gap and know pretty much straight away within a couple of inches if their truck will fit through. i definitely couldn’t do that with height. although i did work with a fella who knocked both steps off a premium trying to get through the rotherhithe tunnel!
if it was people that didn’t know the height then surely they’d be hitting the bridge slowly whilst trying to look if they can fit. i’m sure a few will get caught out by the metric / imperial thing, maybe a few from converting metric to imperial and confusing the decimal of a foot for the inches. but i still think the vast majority are of the lapse in concentration type.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-22797943
Do we not have a sticky for the bridge strike idiots yet it happens that frequently
smokinbarrels:
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lol,
trubster:
greggy:
No excuses, the driver wants his/her licence taken away. Nob head.
Agreed.
Last case I know of, the driver was charged with “Driving without Due Care and attention” and reported to court, probably got a course though…
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With all the huge costs involved every time it happens make the company involved pay for this :
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo)
Within a few years all bridges would be safer.
Ok someone shoot me down…but I like the idea.