Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
UK diy (uk.d-i-y) For the discussion of all topics related to diy (do-it-yourself) in the UK. All levels of experience and proficency are welcome to join in to ask questions or offer solutions. |
Reply |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#41
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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. |
#42
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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 [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
#43
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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 |
#44
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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 |
#45
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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. |
#46
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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. ? |
#47
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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. |
#48
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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 news 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 |
#50
Posted to uk.d-i-y
|
|||
|
|||
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 |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
7 dead and 51 injured in one of Britain's 'worst ever' motorway crashes | Home Repair | |||
Motorway style crash barriers - where to buy? | UK diy | |||
TV lost picture then lost sound.. | Electronics Repair | |||
Ladders Ladderax and Ladder Furniture | UK diy | |||
Ladders | UK diy |