Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On 13/07/2018 22:18, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 13/07/2018 21:42, ARW wrote:
Am I ****.

You could get done for littering too...

Andy

And reversing on a motorway :-)

How many people drove over the ladders ?.

You could be on the hook for a few tyre
replacements if anyone had a dashcam.

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

In article ,
"Brian Gaff" writes:
Back when I was young and could see our family used to go all over the
place and I've seen all sorts of potential accidents with stuff attached to
cars and trucks. I think one of the most impressive on a family car was a
roof box that seemed to just explode at speed and all the contents flew up
in the air and went all over the M1 near Watford I think it was. Luckily
most people managed to avoided the tent and assorted bits of debris. I can
only assume it was not made very well and air got inside and blew it to bits
from within.
The really scary ones are big trucks with loads tat are obviously shifting
due to poor securing. Whole palette loads of cardboard boxes for example
just ending up on the road. Luckily for us on the opposite side of the
road.

Worse one I saw was on M25 near Watford, probably ~16 years ago.
A brewer's truck on opposite carriageway had hit the central barrier
and loads of beer kegs came out through the side and had head-on
collisions with vehicles on my side. Several had gone through car
windscreens, and many smashed in collisions so there was beer all
over the road. As far as I could see, no one was injured which was
truely amazing given the mess. I was 4-5 cars back from the cars
that took the full force of the kegs.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

In message , Andrew Gabriel
writes
As far as I could see, no one was injured which was
truely amazing given the mess. I was 4-5 cars back from the cars
that took the full force of the kegs.

Moral of the story - never drink keg beer :-)
--
Graeme

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On 17/07/2018 13:45, Andrew wrote:
On 13/07/2018 22:18, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 13/07/2018 21:42, ARW wrote:
Am I ****.

You could get done for littering too...

Andy

And reversing on a motorway :-)

How many people drove over the ladders ?.

You could be on the hook for a few tyre
replacements if anyone had a dashcam.


You would have to ask why they did not stop then.

--
Adam

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On 17/07/2018 13:45, Andrew wrote:
On 13/07/2018 22:18, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 13/07/2018 21:42, ARW wrote:
Am I ****.

You could get done for littering too...

Andy

And reversing on a motorway :-)

How many people drove over the ladders ?.

You could be on the hook for a few tyre
replacements if anyone had a dashcam.

Given they would slide for quite a way and stop slower than a car, I
doubt a driver in any following car could realistically make a claim.

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 19:57:05 UTC+1, Fredxx wrote:
On 17/07/2018 13:45, Andrew wrote:
On 13/07/2018 22:18, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 13/07/2018 21:42, ARW wrote:
Am I ****.

You could get done for littering too...

Andy

And reversing on a motorway :-)

How many people drove over the ladders ?.

You could be on the hook for a few tyre
replacements if anyone had a dashcam.

Given they would slide for quite a way and stop slower than a car, I
doubt a driver in any following car could realistically make a claim.

Unless they were in a driverless car perhaps, I wonder if a driverless car woulkd aviod such a thing. ?

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On 19/07/2018 10:34, whisky-dave wrote:

Unless they were in a driverless car perhaps, I wonder if a driverless car woulkd aviod such a thing.

They would have a problem if it can't do something as simple as that.

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

In article , The Natural Philosopher
scribeth thus
On 17/07/18 09:52, tim... wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
On 13/07/2018 19:20, ARW wrote:
Can anyone guess who fitted them to the roof of my van?

Driver's responsibility to check.

last week, on holiday, our coach passed by a truck which had lost a shed
load of loose planks from his load.* Fortunately they had all fallen
onto the shoulder and not the carriageway.

didn't stop to see how he got his load sorted.

tim



Once upon a time I was folliwng my sister up a German autobahn when a
picnic table and chairs badly strapped to the motorhome flew off in the
fast lane

I pulled over, held up my hands and waved, and two German truck drivers
stopped, and blocked the autobahn whilst I cleared up the mess on the
road and shovelled the remains into the camper and duly left.

I expected that to be the end of the matter, but I had not accounted for
my sister.

My sister, has a degree in modern langauges, and made her money
translating for NATO and the EU . Her second husband is a German
EU/NATO/ bureaucrat, ex Nazi youth, as were all in his generation from
Silesia. They both utterly Believe in Germany, The Rule of Law and the
EU. My sister also Believes in the Dangers Of Nuclear Power, Climate
Change and What is Being Hidden From Us, is a rampant Vegan,and has
sired a son who is such a snowflake that he now lives in Islington in
his dippy wife's parent's house. Her mother was a producer at the BBC
and her father is a minor academic. They all support Corbyn, the greens,
are hunt saboteurs and Dont Eat Meat. The son recently went on a
meditation course to try and solve his Guilt Problem because his
grandparents were Nazis (who wasn't, in Germany, in 1940?)

So what did the stupid cow do? She reported *herself* for having an
unsafe load, and paid a hefty fine!

No one could read her number plate - she was well up the road.
Mine was a British number plate anyway


Interestingly I quizzed her over Chernobyl at that time. "The government
is covering it all up"

"Would that be the same government that you 100% support in putting up
windmills? Why are they not covering up the truth about climate change,
if they are covering up the truth about Chernobyl?"

It seems a degree in modern languagees does not equip one to deal with
logical contradictions...

I know ALL about snowflakes and champagne socialists...


I bet you have some interesting Christmas get-togethers;)

Well .. perhaps not!...
--
Tony Sayer

Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

In article ,
says...

Worse one I saw was on M25 near Watford, probably ~16 years ago.

The strangest one I ever saw was in the same area about 10
years before your's.

It was about 10pm and I was on my way to do some nightwork
somewhere up the M1.

As I came round a curve, I was aware of a few slow moving cars
ahead of me in Lane 3.

Lanes 1 & 2 and the hard shoulder were occupied by an artic
which had its cab buried in the embankment alongside the
motorway at that point.

Some cars had already stopped to help so I carried on and
oozed past the back of the trailer. At this point I was
surprised to see three lanes of stationary traffic in the
opposite direction!

The HGV had obviously broken through the central barrier so,
at first sight, there was no longer any obstruction.

I then became aware of loads of cabbages or something of
similar size in the headlights that were scattered all over
the other carriageway, obviously the load that the HGV was
carrying when the problem started.

When I came back about 6am, the M25 was still closed and I
went down the M10 (now the A414) as usual except that instead
of being virtually deserted, as usual, it was full of HGVs and
artics nose to tail!

--

Terry

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Lost my ladders on the motorway
 

On 20/07/2018 19:45, Terry Casey wrote:
In article ,
says...

Worse one I saw was on M25 near Watford, probably ~16 years ago.

The strangest one I ever saw was in the same area about 10
years before your's.

It was about 10pm and I was on my way to do some nightwork
somewhere up the M1.

As I came round a curve, I was aware of a few slow moving cars
ahead of me in Lane 3.

Lanes 1 & 2 and the hard shoulder were occupied by an artic
which had its cab buried in the embankment alongside the
motorway at that point.

Some cars had already stopped to help so I carried on and
oozed past the back of the trailer. At this point I was
surprised to see three lanes of stationary traffic in the
opposite direction!

The HGV had obviously broken through the central barrier so,
at first sight, there was no longer any obstruction.

I then became aware of loads of cabbages or something of
similar size in the headlights that were scattered all over
the other carriageway, obviously the load that the HGV was
carrying when the problem started.

When I came back about 6am, the M25 was still closed and I
went down the M10 (now the A414) as usual except that instead
of being virtually deserted, as usual, it was full of HGVs and
artics nose to tail!

The best one I have seen was a 4x4 stopped on the hard-shoulder of the
M62. Up the embankment was an Escort, virtually intact and sat on its
wheels. On top of the escort, sat perfectly aligned with it, sat the
twin-axled trailer that had been transporting it ... also the right way
up! How the hell he managed that I don't know.

SteveW