Another lorry hits bridge (From Swindon Advertiser)

OOh dear that'll cause a bit of a stir!

Don't cry over spilt porridge! At least those late night revellers that go out in town and walk back home to West Swindon in the early hours can pick up their breakfast on the way home!

shannon_satines wrote:
Don't cry over spilt porridge! At least those late night revellers that go out in town and walk back home to West Swindon in the early hours can pick up their breakfast on the way home!

they'd just best check its porridge and not the contents of someone's late night dodgy kebab van fare!

Shame the milk float wasn't following on behind.
Don't lorry drivers know the height of their vehicles and whether or not they're going to fit under bridges?

3 points? What a disgrace - lorry drivers are a menace. This one could do with being fired.

In what respect was the lorry driver 'caught out' by the bridge?

Was he caught out by the clear height restriction signs, or was he caught out by the very obvious luminous yellow chevrons on the bridge?

The transfer of goods to the cut-price road haulage industry has a price. If a train driver passes a red signal, or a pilot goes off the end of a runway would they be 'caught out' as well - or guilty of a gross error of judgement?

Given the inconvenience and cost that this sort of ignorant driving places on those who are responsible for the bridges and the many other travellers, be they on the road or the railway, I find a £60 fine and three points laughable - hardly a deterrent to the next ignorant individual who may cause sufficient damage to the bridge to bring a train off the rails...

John Smith II wrote:
In what respect was the lorry driver 'caught out' by the bridge?

Was he caught out by the clear height restriction signs, or was he caught out by the very obvious luminous yellow chevrons on the bridge?

The transfer of goods to the cut-price road haulage industry has a price. If a train driver passes a red signal, or a pilot goes off the end of a runway would they be 'caught out' as well - or guilty of a gross error of judgement?

Given the inconvenience and cost that this sort of ignorant driving places on those who are responsible for the bridges and the many other travellers, be they on the road or the railway, I find a £60 fine and three points laughable - hardly a deterrent to the next ignorant individual who may cause sufficient damage to the bridge to bring a train off the rails...

So in a rather roundabout way you agree with my above statement that the silly s0d should be fired?

John Smith II wrote:
In what respect was the lorry driver 'caught out' by the bridge?

Was he caught out by the clear height restriction signs, or was he caught out by the very obvious luminous yellow chevrons on the bridge?

The transfer of goods to the cut-price road haulage industry has a price. If a train driver passes a red signal, or a pilot goes off the end of a runway would they be 'caught out' as well - or guilty of a gross error of judgement?

Given the inconvenience and cost that this sort of ignorant driving places on those who are responsible for the bridges and the many other travellers, be they on the road or the railway, I find a £60 fine and three points laughable - hardly a deterrent to the next ignorant individual who may cause sufficient damage to the bridge to bring a train off the rails...

So in a rather roundabout way you agree with my above statement that the silly s0d should be fired?

Probably didn't speak or read English anyway.