Great pic’s,as your legal representative I am glad you didn’t reveal the drivers names,as I feel a claim coming on
They must have recabbed the F10 as I brought it from Princes and ran it for a few years Mike Mott drove it doing Belgium/Holland groupage every week,the pic shows it with an F12 badge on which I think Mick added to keep up with the Dutch lads
I’ve sent you a PM.
Regards
Richard
Thank you Richard…Your legal retainer fee’s are high, but worth it…
The driver (F10 ) was having a kip when it happened, lucky he was sleeping with his feet towards the road, not his head !! Think it was just re-cabbed, no other damage
I think that the 89 was re-built and made into a wrecker ?..will have to check with Monty and John (Cooper)…and my legal rep !!!
This was Andy Cabels LHD F12 that he turned over in Spain, lucky man !!
harry:
I think an ex-copper was driving one of those?
Hiya Harry, You could be thinking of the Hebden Bridge crash in the 90s the 8 wheeler Foden in Tilcon colours with the defective brakes, maybe cheers Sepo
The one you mean I think, was at the top of Bolton Brow in SOWERBY BRIDGE,just down the road from me.
Several people lost their lives,a terrible tradgedy indeed.
Regards JOHN.
Thats the one John, the commercial motor use to P me off with it, everytime they had no picture to a story they always used a pic of that.
a few of my motors, the lad driving the Foden did this a few days after handing his notice in, a few years later I put it back on the road, the next pic is of it in Amsterdam last week… The lad in the DAF just got up late on an icy morning. But it didnt matter coz he said sorry ,mmmmmmm
harry:
I think an ex-copper was driving one of those?
Hiya Harry, You could be thinking of the Hebden Bridge crash in the 90s the 8 wheeler Foden in Tilcon colours with the defective brakes, maybe cheers Sepo
The one you mean I think, was at the top of Bolton Brow in SOWERBY BRIDGE,just down the road from me.
Several people lost their lives,a terrible tradgedy indeed.
Regards JOHN.
Thats the one John, the commercial motor use to P me off with it, everytime they had no picture to a story they always used a pic of that.
It was Friday the 6th of September 1993 when the Foden tipper which unknown to its driver had eight defective brakes, careered down a hill, smashing into a van and a shop.
Six killed people including the Foden tipper driver Derek Waterworth aged 63, were killed 20 years ago.
Transport company Fewston were fined £5,000 but a lack of evidence meant the manager was cleared of manslaughter as the charge of corporate manslaughter did not exist at the time.
I remember that very well as I was driving for a similar Tilcon contract haulier at the time. Our maintenance schedule improved drastically after that incident so it did us some good as our trucks were getting in a bit of a state to say the least, nothing like the excellent condition that Tilcon kept them in. Just a shame that it needed that to happen though.
I do not have any pictures but when my father had his pub we witnessed many serious and fatal accidents on the main road, that was before the M62 was opened and the old A63 was the route in and out of Hull, but my most shocking memory was of a Volvo F86 on Alfred Gelder Street who was carrying steel plate. He braked at the traffic lights, the plate broke loose and tipped the cab over before slicing its way through the cab. The driver was OK but trapped in the cab. They cut him out and reloaded the trailer, the next day he was sent off in a different unit with the same load.
It shocked me most because of the damage and the fact that if I had been in the local transport yard five minutes earlier I would probably have gone for a ride onto the docks with him, as it was I went in with the company boss that night so we both saw the carnage
