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Delay on the N7 yesterday

  • 18-01-2012 4:27pm
    #1
    kkelly77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭


    Anyone hear about the delays inbound on the N7 yesterday?

    A car transporter had stopped in the hard shoulder. One of the cars it was carrying, located directly behind the drivers cab, was ablaze. Fire brigade and Gardai where already on scene when I was passing it about 2pm. I heard there were still delays at 6-6:30pm.

    How would the car have caught fire though? Surely not close enough to the cab engine to heat up?


Comments

  • #2
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    Doubt it but I thought the transporter was only there picking up the car when I saw it.


  • #3
    kkelly77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭kkelly77


    TheBazman wrote: »
    Doubt it but I thought the transporter was only there picking up the car when I saw it.

    There were 3 or 4 cars on the bottom and top level of the trailer when I drove past.


  • #4
    Darsad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Darsad


    Yep i passed it at about 1.55 pm the first car behind the cab on the lower deck was toast and half the second. Never though to take a snap .


  • #5
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    Strange - no idea how that would have happened


  • #6
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    The first car behind the truck cab caught fire and then it spread. The driver tried to get the rest of the cars off. Fairly frightening situation, I was on the M6 a few years ago gaining on a transporter when the last car fell off on the road. Needless to say the auld underpants were in bother....


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  • #7
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    That's a sizeable insurance claim


  • #8
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    The first car behind the truck cab caught fire and then it spread. The driver tried to get the rest of the cars off.

    Er I for one would not fancy reversing cars off a burning truck whilst parked in the hard shoudler of a motorway!!!:eek:
    Fairly frightening situation, I was on the M6 a few years ago gaining on a transporter when the last car fell off on the road. Needless to say the auld underpants were in bother....
    :eek::eek::eek:


  • #9
    Backtowhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Backtowhite


    I have worked on a job before when they were transporting cars.

    If one of the cars had a dead battery they would jump start it to get it on the truck and keep the car running on the back of the truck so they could get it off.....maybe car was running


  • #10
    OldmanMondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭OldmanMondeo


    What's the story with cars just going on fire lately? Seen 2 on the M4 within the last month BMW before Christmas and a Mondeo last week.


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