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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Left side looks fine. No idea why they had to shut both sides! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I came around the North side of the M25 at 18:30, and every overhead matrix sign was saying M20 Junctions 1-4 closed.
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@foxtrotzulu, what, other than the half of the bridge on the other side being turned into a ski jump 
Thats not going to be a quick fix.
Some questions are going to be asked too, wagon shouldnt really be able to impact at such an impact that it drops the whole bridge! Would be interesting to see how high the barrier is the and the post centres.
Big oops.
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Welcome to my World . . . I do very few 'overheight/oversize' runs, but EVERY bridge/crossover/tunnel/etc. has to be mapped and annotated on the 'permit' application and detours to avoid can add hundreds of miles to a drive. This was a driver fookoop and 'over here' he'd be slapped with criminal charges and his company would be on the hook for ALL the costs incurred.
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@Masque, The same will happen here. Looking at the pictures of the digger that appears to have actually hit the bridge the one thing the driver did a good job of was chaining it on, it does not appear to have moved at all. You can assume all bridges in the UK have at least 5m clearance unless they are signed otherwise. Running box trailers, curtaintrailers at just under 5m is pretty common. Looking at the digger I reckon the reason it has happened is that the bucket is the "wrong" way on the digger, most of the time it would be the other way round (with the cavity towards you) but occasionally they are reversed into "face shovel mode" like this which means when they have loaded it on the truck the vertical "dipper arm" has not reached the floor like it normally would with the bucket crowded and this has made the overall height that bit more than normal. Still does not actually look 5m high though.
The fact that the white truck with the box trailer was alongside looks to have helped avoid a worse disaster.
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| Left side looks fine. No idea why they had to shut both sides! |
They reckon its absolutely fine. When they open the M20 later today, it'll still be there!
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Have just realised after looking at the photos the truck with the digger is actually on the hard shoulder ?
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Am i the only one who thinks the boom of the rubber duck looks like its not even struck the bridge??!!
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Not at all! The whole thing seems rather odd. The white truck was obliterated. (understandably / soft material)
The "culprit" truck though should have been somewhere around the 55/60 mph mark... and I dont care how good your chaining skills are, something is getting messed up at that speed!
** link to photo of excavator **
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Sun 28-08-16 12:29; edited 1 time in total
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As a minimum, I'd expect the hydraulic lines to have been torn from the boom of the excavator.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It looks like there was construction work happening on the bridge (there are barriers on the sides of it). Have to wonder if that contibuted.
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| PaulC1984 wrote: |
| Am i the only one who thinks the boom of the rubber duck looks like its not even struck the bridge??!! |
Theres a video on bbc news where they fly around the scene. It looks like the end of the boom hit it square on.
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You know it makes sense.
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Initial story was that Lowloader with Excavator on board was running on the Hard Shoulder, from the pics it looks like the bridge was built sloping, possibly less than the standard 16ft clearance over the Hard Shoulder?
The bridge was under repair and if you looked where it snapped there appears to be a calcium build up...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Sorry but it looks like the digger did hit the bridge.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Did it hit at very low speed and stop directly under it? Did the bridge collapse from the effect of a vehicular "one inch punch"?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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All open again now. Bits of broken bridge removed, motorway swept up. 1 injury, Biker with broken ribs.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Motorway open bridge only partially removed! 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3762053/Motorways-open-experts-investigate-terrifying-incident-M20-pedestrian-bridge-collapsed-heavy-Bank-Holiday-traffic.html
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Apparently it's safe, though you have to drive at 50 mph underneath it......
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The road will be shut from 8pm tomorrow (Friday) and remain closed until 6am Monday while they remove the bit left standing. Cue chaos.
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Traveled through area on Sunday afternoon on way back from Tunnel - have to say there was very little delay. Get off at 5 use the A20 join other side - added 15 mins at most.
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