Noel Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Darwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Video here now - - containing the hashtag #truckwit ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Bridge strike north of Malahide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Love their hashtag... Hopefully the driver will be sacked and banned from driving for the max time possible. Roads are bad enough without morons like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 It's not always the driver..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36111795 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 More complicated that the usual bridge strike. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-36293045 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 I came across this bit of bedtime reading for those interested in bridge strikes. http://www.crr.ie/publications/railway-bridges-in-ireland-bridge-strike-trends/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Bridge strike currently causing issues through Port Laoise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Sometimes a bridge-strike is cleared up after a quick inspection - sometimes not... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-37204050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Unbelievable,never ceases to amaze me,could have been so much worse as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Darwin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 (edited) To be fair, it looks like somebody else may have initially hit a supporting pillar, then others hit the (now lowered) bridge. Only one injury, apparently, a motorcyclist with a few cracked ribs. It was a footbridge, and, presumably, there was nobody on the collapsed section at the time. Edited August 27, 2016 by Broithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Further reports suggest that the digger on the back of the truck on the hard shoulder connected with the lowest part of the sloping footbridge and dislodged it. Also, it seems that the footbridge may have been closed for repairs. All told, it was a remarkable escape, even for the sole injured party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 This may have some beneficial effect, eventually. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37703556 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricanemk1c Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I see one big issue there - sat nav companies will have to pay to access the data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I see one big issue there - sat nav companies will have to pay to access the data Until somebody like Google does it on a Street View type road survey in the future, perhaps...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 This may have some beneficial effect, eventually. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37703556 Hope so. I felt sorry for the poor chap who foolishly drove an artic HGV down the tiny rural lane near where we live today. He had to reverse 1/4m all the way back up to the minor road, and then reverse a further 500m to a point he could turn the thing. If he had used google street view to preview the road he'd have realised he'd never have fitted, had no turning space, and not enough head room to get under the trees. There were four 'rabbits in the headlights' suvs behind him 'dooh what will we do' and I had to convince them to reverse back up to the top road so he could reverse back. Then I had to prevent further commuters heading down the lane again until he got clear. Took 20 minutes to clear up. Back in 2010 in the bad snow, on multiple occasions, tourists blindly followed sat nav to sally gap and wicklow gap, duly getting snowed in until mountain rescue got them out. S-61N Rescue 116 was called out to one 'foolish driver' stuck in the snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Until somebody like Google does it on a Street View type road survey in the future, perhaps...? existing 'Street view' could have prevented todays mess. I was only delayed 20 minutes but the 'rabbits in the head lights' had already been there quite a while before I arrived behind them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I live on a main road into a 65,000 population town. It's fully closed for three months, with only a single parallel back lane, full of parked cars, as a diversion - the signs as you enter, half a mile before the closure, say Road Ahead Closed, fair enough - but the Businesses Open As Usual sign is perhaps a bit misleading, as they're all beyond the closure. I get eight to ten artics a day trying to turn here now, having thought they might be able to get as far as they need to. Nobody's hit anything yet, but statistics will prevail at some point, I fear. There is a 'beautiful' permanent sign on the A55 near Bangor - Width Limit 12 Miles Ahead - but no idea of what the limit will actually be when you get there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 It seems that people don't always notice... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38171714 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Quick chat on the news just now - 95 bridge strikes this year, ten up on last year's total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Quick chat on the news just now - 95 bridge strikes this year, ten up on last year's total. I wonder how long it will be before somebody starts compensating motorists for the loss of fuel and time caused by these delays? I presume the insurance company ends up paying for the bridge and rail delays,and compensation for rail passengers, or does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 (edited) I wonder how long it will be before somebody starts compensating motorists for the loss of fuel and time caused by these delays? I presume the insurance company ends up paying for the bridge and rail delays,and compensation for rail passengers, or does it? There was a famous case over 25 years ago when a very large crane in transit just grazed the underside of a large pedestrian over-bridge on a dual carriageway. Result road closed for weeks while bridge removed, eventually rebuilt. It went legal, but in the end after a few years the crane operators insurers were just about to cough up, when a junior researcher discovered the local authority was in fact at fault for the reduced bridge clearance due to a number of road resurfacing projects over the years when they had not removed some of the previous surfaces, therefore raising the level of the dual carriageway. The crane operator had originally correctly researched the clearance and would not have hit the bridge had the road been where it was supposed to be! If the junior researcher working for the cranes insurers had not discovered the mistake they would have paid millions. Instead the local authority rightly had to pay for the damage to the crane and the loss of hire revenue. Edited December 28, 2016 by Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 The new bridge at Carrick on Suir will be half a metre higher, in an effort to let somebody else have the Most Struck Bridge Award in future years. http://www.newstalk.com/Most-struck-railway-bridge-in-the-country-to-be-replaced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murrayec Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 If one looks at the bridges on the N11/M11 from Kilmacanogue to Loughlinstown an eagle eye will tell you 3 of the bridges are to low, worst is Kilcroney Bridge outside Bray- I actually saw a log truck with its grabber stretched over its load scrape under at about 60mph, the tyres and suspension just allowed enough leeway to avert a nasty disaster. Large mobile cranes cannot go under this bridge they have to drive up the Bray off ramp and back down the other side, when they are doing this they have to fill the depressed roundabout with sand so the grading is correct to get over the hump. The two north Bray bridges that span over the road have had their pre-cast cladding fascias removed so that trucks do not hit them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinner75 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 would it not have been a hell of a lot cheaper to install a few I-beam barriers up the road from the bridge? Let the trucks smash into them instead - easy to replace a damaged I beam, and the truck driver learns a lesson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 If one looks at the bridges on the N11/M11 from Kilmacanogue to Loughlinstown an eagle eye will tell you 3 of the bridges are to low, worst is Kilcroney Bridge outside Bray- I actually saw a log truck with its grabber stretched over its load scrape under at about 60mph, the tyres and suspension just allowed enough leeway to avert a nasty disaster. Large mobile cranes cannot go under this bridge they have to drive up the Bray off ramp and back down the other side, when they are doing this they have to fill the depressed roundabout with sand so the grading is correct to get over the hump. The two north Bray bridges that span over the road have had their pre-cast cladding fascias removed so that trucks do not hit them!! If the bridges are under the regulation height for that type of road, all parties involved in a collision or enjoined RTA could sue the local authority. (i.e. as happened in Dublin decades ago when a pedestrian bridge was struck by a crane because the road level had been raised reducing clearance due to being resurface on multiple occasions over the years). would it not have been a hell of a lot cheaper to install a few I-beam barriers up the road from the bridge? Let the trucks smash into them instead - easy to replace a damaged I beam, and the truck driver learns a lesson Yes that does seem eminently and economically sensible, however there is still a H&S risk of involving other traffic in RTA either behind the truck, or coming in opposite direction when it hits the barrier, either stops abruptly, or goes out of control, or sheds its load, or topples over, not to mention bits of debris showering pedestrians, motor cyclists, cyclists, protected species of Patagonian snails, etc. During summer months it is common practice to see some HGV trailers on motorways overloaded with large round straw and hay bales, held on with mere tensioning straps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Here - - one side of the dual carriageway was dropped about five feet, to allow oversize loads through, rather than raise the bridge. This sort of thing. It does mean that only the southbound side can be used, even if going north, which does cause a bit of chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 This may be the new C-o-S bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 would it not have been a hell of a lot cheaper to install a few I-beam barriers up the road from the bridge? Let the trucks smash into them instead - easy to replace a damaged I beam, and the truck driver learns a lesson That's precisely what Network Rail has done at Pangbourne on the GW main line - and probably elsewhere. There's s beam across the road about 3/4 yards in front of the bridge carrying the four track main line - so any lorries would be given a haircut! And the trains keep running! Leslie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leslie10646 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 This business of resurfacing roads has its railway equivalent. Network Rail (and probably good old IE and NIR) "improve" the ballasting on lines, effectively raising the trackbed. No problem for the usual boxes going under bridges, but steam locos with higher chimneys? I remember one of the preserved King Class locos arriving in Paddington without either its chimney top, or was it the safety valve? Progress, don't you love it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murrayec Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Noel Kilcroney bridge should be renamed 'Strawfall Bridge' because thats exactly what happens- heading north after the bridge the road side shrubbery is regularly covered with straw!! Eoin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Merrion Gates again this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Merrion Gates again this morning. [ATTACH=CONFIG]27046[/ATTACH] Just build a bridge, its bonkers with the traffic volume using that road to have a level crossing from a traffic management point of view. Its not rocket science to design a bridge that will fit in the available space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarabuses Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 The design already exists. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=101471233 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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