ROFL - brilliant one!

"Our most valuable resource sits 63 feet ahead", indeed. Spot of devaluation ahead, you reckon?

Buses
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/390713071.xhtml

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Slightly train related :-)

Just wonder how modern drivers get their licenses? How obvious is this one?

Sorry, left glasses at home

"The bridge was hit by lorries four times in September and has since been struck twice every month, causing more than 147 cancellations and delaying trains by over 73 hours in total."

Why don't they just dig the road bed down a little to make clearance?

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Slightly train related :-)

Just wonder how modern drivers get their licenses? How obvious is this one?

Sorry, left glasses at home

"The bridge was hit by lorries four times in September and has since been struck twice every month, causing more than 147 cancellations and delaying trains by over 73 hours in total."

Why don't they just dig the road bed down a little to make clearance?

Probably utility lines under it which would have to be reconfigured. Sewer lines especially depend on gravity for proper flow.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Speaking of Bridges, this one got a bit, melted it looks like, yep a victim of the Blue Cut fire...

Looks bad, but it's amazing how fast railroads can replace bridges when they want/need to.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BUSES_CRASH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-19-17-44-20

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Two commuter buses slammed into each other in downtown Newark on Friday morning, killing a veteran driver and a passenger and injuring 17 others, including several critically, authorities said.

A New Jersey Transit bus just starting its route and carrying no passengers slammed into the side of another NJ Transit bus carrying about 20 passengers at around 6 a.m. at a downtown intersection.

Joseph Barthelus, the driver of the bus carrying no passengers, was killed. He had worked for NJ Transit for 27 years, the agency said.

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It was still a bit warm to repair this morning.

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Sad News, Summit Inn was destroyed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37141545

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Wow, whatever happened to professionalism? I bet many here worked with people that they did not like but got on with the job in hand.

Cabin Crew argue so much, they got removed from the aircraft

Wow, whatever happened to professionalism?

It was probably priced out in favour of cheap fares.

The Airlander 10, currently the largest aircraft in the world, has just gracefully crashed onto the ground during its second test flight in the north of London, UK.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-aircraft-just-crashed-in-a-painfully-slow-nosedive/ar-BBw1Dlq?li=BBnb7Kz

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The Airlander 10, currently the largest aircraft in the world, has just gracefully crashed onto the ground during its second test flight in the north of London, UK.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-aircraft-just-crashed-in-a-painfully-slow-nosedive/ar-BBw1Dlq?li=BBnb7Kz

After initial denials, it has now been confirmed that Airlander 10 came into contact with an overhead power cable before crashing.

Airlander 10: Longest aircraft hit power cable before nosediving

What is it these days about truck drivers & bridges?



Truck with digger hit the bridge. It's possible that the truck driver does not have a license to operate diggers but it's his responsibility to ensure his load.

Have transported diggers in the past but unlike that guy, have ensured the digger arm is lowered on the flatbed. Looking at the 2nd photo in the report, the rest of that flatbed is empty, so the driver will have some questions to answer.

M20 closed

Looking at the 2nd photo in the report, the rest of that flatbed is empty, so the driver will have some questions to answer.

The excavator might have been further forward on the truck before it hit the bridge.
The bike rider was very lucky to get out of it with just possibly broken ribs.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Doubt it as there is a dumper truck in the way. Dumper should have been placed at the headwall with the digger at the rear with the arm lowered. As for the motorcyclist, he was very lucky he had the time to throw himself off the bike & only suffered cracked ribs.

Doubt it as there is a dumper truck in the way.

Ah, didn't notice it in the other shot.

I think there were quite a few very lucky people there if cracked ribs & a shaken up driver or 2 are the only casualties from that mess.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Sorry Grant, it's not in the other shot. Got that as a screenshot from the aerial video.

Totally agree, the whole incident was very lucky in that no serious causalities or fatalities involved.

As with all forms of transport, just an extra few minutes evaluating the load will always prevent incidents such as this thereby making it much more safer for everyone.

Edit: I feel sorry for the transport company as that is going to be one hell of an insurance headache.

Ooops...revised opinion.

Dumper truck couldn't be at headwall due to it being a low loader trailer. Still, the digger's shovel should have been placed on the higher deck which would have provided a much lower profile & bridge would not have been hit.

Screengrab from Google Streetview.



Looking at the broken stub-end of the bridge in relation to the digger arm in the previous picture, I must say I query whether the arm was too high, or whether the bridge clearance over the hard shoulder was not as high as it should have been?

At least the streetview image shows that the bridge came apart at a construction/expansion joint - lends credibility to the statements that the remaining 'bridge to nowhere' over the eastbound carriageway is structurally sound.

That's true of many footbridges as well as some bridges. However, that trailer had the space to provide a much lower profile of the load in question.