Most canals are operated by the Canal & River Trust as are some of the rivers.
Just realised it’s the route we take coming back from Marlborough over that bridge.
If he swerved, because something was coming out of that bridge towards him, it looks rather benign that verge on the right hand side…
Once the cab was past that partial crash barrier though, he was probably thinking.
“Oh Sh…” in whatever language he was thinking in…
It’s not a long way down. “Shock” is going to be the main injury here, I reckon…
Might have managed the first words of Volare and I am sailing assuming any involvement of alcohol.
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Road, Rail and Canal Navigation. 3 methods of freight transport almost captured in one aerial photo.
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This will keep the Nimbies and anti-truck brigade happy as they are always citing get the freight off the roads and use trains, rivers and canals but don’t realise how the goods will arrive once they are offloaded at the railway hub as a freight train does not deliver to a housing estate for the cheap tat they order online.
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I thought you were on Teesside? Not sure why I thought that, mind…
Anyway, the Tees is CRT upstream of the Barrage.
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I am yes, although I’m an immigrant to the area since 2010 so not a dyed-in-the-wool smoggy. I didn’t know anything about the CRT at all until it was mentioned here, and had no idea of their involvement in respect of the Tees
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I’m and immigrant too, though from a few years earlier. And, to be fair, I’d never heard of them either before taking up rowing as a sport, and learning they were the river-user’s equivalent of National Highways ie. there only to be moaned about!
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Assuming he was on the correct side of the road on the approach where the van sort of is, that would have required a lot of right hand steering lock to get the trailer into that position and down into the canal.Why would he have wanted to swerve over to the offside and then off the road.
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It’s a mystery to me too Carryfast, as I previously mentioned, are we looking at falling asleep at the wheel as the incident was at 02.40 am, or a mechanical failure of the lorry or a medical incident for the driver, such as a seizure,blackout , epilepsy , myocardial infarction or another undiagnosed medical condition he or she was not aware of?
I don’t see much of a mystery: it’s early hours, pitch black on a rural road, he’s probably hoofing it, another vehicle is on the bridge, rather than brake he swerves and being unaware of his surroundings (because he’s hoofing it and not using all round observation) gets a nasty surprise, goes through the barrier and down the bank.
Looks like the narrowboats have a wait on still.
Canal section near Marlborough to be dredged after lorry crash - BBC News
Though counter to that he’s running carrots, so I am inclined to think his night vision should be spot on…
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