got stuck today on the m80,main link from glasgow to stirling,thought id check the bbc website to see what caused the delays,how the fuck did this tipper manage to get into that position?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/6385189.stm

 

lol, thats funny!!

 

WTF!?!? how'd he manage that?

 

that is WELL fookin odd

 

Simple;
Lorry Driver failed to notice the body was still up or had mysteriously lifted on it's own, continued to drive under the gantry, the body hit at the top, the chassis / cab kept going and broke free from the body.
The Vauxhall driver was asleep and didn't see any of this happening and ran into it.

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Bet the guy in the Corsa shit himself!

 

oh dear oh dear!

 

how did he not notice the box was still up.

must of taken half the telephone wires down too on the way to the motorway.

someone must of told him, or tried to tell him.

 

Now thats a Brown Trouser moment!!!

Very funny tho

 

I drive an 8 wheeled tipper, and literally without jacking the thing up to full height, there is no way that could get up there!

I had thought maybe the driver had knocked the tip lever while on the move, but

1) Most tip levers have safety catches (you have to manually hold the lever all the time for it to work)

2) You'd notice straight away. Even empty that's a lot of weight up in the air

3) The biggie - the tipper doesn't work unless a PTO is engaged, usually a dash switch, which would be hard to knock on or off accidentally.

So fook knows

Could the body have somehow become detached from the truck and been dragged behind the lorry? The driver saw this, so slammed on the anchors. Old giffer in the Corsa rams into the back of the truck body, forcing it up in the air using the back of the truck like a launch ramp. It jams under the gantry. Matey trucker legs it in the now chassis cab thinking SHIT!!!

Be interesting to see what suggestions people come up with or what ACTUALLY happened.

Si

 

I think a stray nub ends responsible. Going off whats been said in the smoking while driving thread. I reckon a stray nub lodged on the hydraulic ram and the resulting fierce heat made the oil expand, thus lifting the body.

 

O.K theory no. 2;
It was on a lorry full of scrap lorry bodies stacked very high, something shifted just before the driver got to the gantry, the body caught at the top, fell off and jammed, Corsa hit it, lorry driver didn't notice, or did and cleared off.

Looking at how dark it might have been I bet the Corsa driver just didn't see it against the dark sky, not the sort of thing you normally find abandoned on the motorways

I bet there will be some CCTV somewhere showing what lorry it was.

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Scrap body seems like a good call - looking at the pic a second time - it has no back door which is odd unless it was scrap.

I'd guess the concertina shaped thing at the top (against the gantry) is a sheet, but directly beneath the ARROW sign on the gantry, what are the two red rectangular shapes?

 

Awsome!!!

 

Overhang boards to stop crap dropping down in between the body and cab.

Blow the pic up in photoshop or something and you can see them clearly.

I thought the tailgate might be under the Corsa but it's not visible on 200% plus improved contrast.

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its on the news in a minuite...

war in iraq?

taxes going up?

somebody murderd next door?

i dont give a fuck...how did that lorry get like that

 

That's fucking madness!

 

Just been on the news, it was an Agency driver and it only got half a mile up the road before it hit the gantry

Probably been left up and didnt notice

 

I know someone trying to get to Aberdeen from Greenock today. He took 3.5hrs to drive 46 miles

Now we know why

 

I heard apparently somthing went on with the hydraulics and it flew up as it went under the sign.

 

Brian

 

Maybe Euan passed it at a silly speed and blew it of the back

 

 

Now thats a proper bike ramp, imagine being on a crosser of some sort, doing 70mph, and whaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmm bababababa LIMITER!!!!










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