How did the truck get stuck under Amiens St bridge yesterday (Fri)

Brian_Graham · 16-03-2019 4:50pm #1

Anyone know how the truck got stuck under Amiens St railway bridge on Friday? It looks to me from the pictures like it's not a straightforward case of the truck being too tall for the bridge. Double deck buses pass under that bridge all the time. The bridge clearance is 4.69m, which is higher than the max legal height for any vehicle (4.65m). I suspect the truck somehow tilted before it hit the bridge. Could be partly caused by the storm? Or a combination of wind and swerving to avoid something?

Obviously I don't want anyone saying "x was clearly to blame", we've no way of knowing for sure. But anyone got any theories?

Ally Dick · 16-03-2019 4:52pm

There's video doing the rounds. The lorry looked too high for the bridge

5T3PH3N · 16-03-2019 4:53pm

It’s was driven into the bridge, the bridge is at an angle to the road so when the top of the trailer hit the bridge it leaned a bit as it ran along the bridge. There is a video on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/b1hxrq/video_truck_crashes_into_bridge_on_amiens_st/

Harry Palmr · 16-03-2019 4:58pm

Any driver who does that should be fined the cost of the vehicles and bridge repair.

orourkeda1977 · 16-03-2019 4:58pm

Possibly because the driver was too cheap to use the tunnel.

Atlantic Dawn · 16-03-2019 4:58pm

The driver should be locked in jail for 2 months and so should the owner of the company, there's no excuse for this absolute incompetence which costs the economy millions every year in lost productivity. It was a UK registered truck with a trailer from HMT Shipping Ltd.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tEXdIXgAAHbTM.jpg:large

Atlantic Dawn · 16-03-2019 4:59pm

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Possibly because the driver was too cheap to use the tunnel.

Tunnel is free for trucks.

Odelay · 16-03-2019 5:00pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The driver should be locked in jail for 2 months and so should the owner of the company, there's no excuse for this absolute incompetence which costs the economy millions every year in lost productivity. It was a UK registered truck with a trailer from HMT Shipping Ltd.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tEXdIXgAAHbTM.jpg

Trailer was HMT, truck may not be theirs, they subcontract a lot of it out.

corner of hells · 16-03-2019 5:01pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The driver should be locked in jail for 2 months and so should the owner of the company, there's no excuse for this absolute incompetence which costs the economy millions every year in lost productivity. It was a UK registered truck with a trailer from HMT Shipping Ltd.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tEXdIXgAAHbTM.jpg

His house and neighbours houses should also be burned to the ground , his family forced to work in the salt mines and he should be made watch re runs of the Eurovision forever.

orourkeda1977 · 16-03-2019 5:02pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Tunnel is free for trucks.

Stupid then

Atlantic Dawn · 16-03-2019 5:03pm

corner of hells wrote: »

His house and neighbours houses should also be burned to the ground , his family forced to work in the salt mines and he should be made watch re runs of the Eurovision forever.

And a tatoo of the bridge's height put on his forehead

Odelay · 16-03-2019 5:04pm

Brian_Graham wrote: »

Anyone know how the truck got stuck under Amiens St railway bridge on Friday? It looks to me from the pictures like it's not a straightforward case of the truck being too tall for the bridge. Double deck buses pass under that bridge all the time. The bridge clearance is 4.69m, which is higher than the max legal height for any vehicle (4.65m). I suspect the truck somehow tilted before it hit the bridge. Could be partly caused by the storm? Or a combination of wind and swerving to avoid something?

Obviously I don't want anyone saying "x was clearly to blame", we've no way of knowing for sure. But anyone got any theories?

I’m not sure where you’re getting that max legal height from??

Turbohymac · 16-03-2019 5:04pm

4.65 is the max legal height here in Ireland but clearly there are many vehicles that clearly exceed this legal height...they can travel unobstructed on many pre_planned routes. However if the driver decides to alternate from these routes well we all know what will happen... usually motorway bridges etc are above 5 meters high..
Clearly this vehicle was too high for the route travelled..regardless of double decker buses etc using the same route the front of the trailer only needed to be a few inches higher than other vehicles.
Quite clearly it's a bridge strike which carries a mandatory court appearance for the driver..

nc6000 · 16-03-2019 5:07pm

I'm not far from a railway bridge which is well marked with signs showing what the clearance is. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen trucks etc trying to work out if they can squeeze under.

Remarkable how many truck drivers are going around with no idea how high their vehicle is.

Infini · 16-03-2019 5:59pm

Herpus Derpus! Or how the fùck did he manage this?

Harry Palmr · 16-03-2019 6:02pm

There is or was a bridge in Portarlington or Portlaoise (forget which) that was infamous for the number of trucks getting stuck under it.

tom1ie · 16-03-2019 6:05pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The driver should be locked in jail for 2 months and so should the owner of the company, there's no excuse for this absolute incompetence which costs the economy millions every year in lost productivity. It was a UK registered truck with a trailer from HMT Shipping Ltd.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tEXdIXgAAHbTM.jpg:large

Jaysus. Relax buddy!

RasTa · 16-03-2019 6:09pm

This is still the worst of 2019. It was being used as a school bus too.

whisky_galore · 16-03-2019 6:11pm

Because those stupid 19th century engineers didn't foresee the invention of big trucks.

Atlantic Dawn · 16-03-2019 6:15pm

tom1ie wrote: »

Jaysus. Relax buddy!

Yes we should let professional drivers who's job it is to drive a truck go around hitting bridges because they are so lazy they won't measure how high their vehicle is and compare that height against how high the bridge is, yes great plan.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 16-03-2019 6:17pm

corner of hells wrote: »

His house and neighbours houses should also be burned to the ground , his family forced to work in the salt mines and he should be made watch re runs of the Eurovision forever.

He wasn't a Palestinian and we're not Israeli's

silverharp · 16-03-2019 6:18pm

there was a second one yday too, got stuck on a train getting back between drumcondra and Connolly station

expectationlost · 16-03-2019 7:39pm

why don't they put up those warning ropes

spurious · 16-03-2019 7:43pm

expectationlost wrote: »

why don't they put up those warning ropes

Away with you and your sensible and cheap to implement solution.

They had them on the East Wall Road for a while. Seemed to work fine.

expectationlost · 16-03-2019 7:47pm

i've never seen an article saying shipping company fined for bridge strike

heres the punishment http://www.rsa.ie/en/RSA/Your-Vehicle/Your-Vehicle-/Road-Worthiness--Related-Offences/Bridge-Strikes/

kneemos · 16-03-2019 7:50pm

Looked like a standard artic.

looksee · 16-03-2019 7:51pm

He had too much air in his tyres.

kneemos · 16-03-2019 7:53pm

looksee wrote: »

He had too much air in his tyres.

Some of them can raise their suspension.

2forjoy · 16-03-2019 7:55pm

Uk registered truck. Luckily it happened before 29th march

YFlyer · 16-03-2019 7:58pm

The guy is ducking down while going under the bridge

McMurphy · 16-03-2019 8:23pm

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

Possibly because the driver was too cheap to use the tunnel.

The whole point of the tunnel was to facilitate HGVs, they therefore are not charged anything to use the tunnel, while motorists are.

Relikk · 16-03-2019 8:40pm

Reminds me of one of my favourite YouTube channels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBLH8qvaIFg

greencap · 16-03-2019 9:34pm

DCC will claim the costs of damage to the bridge from the trucking firms insurance right?

Credit Checker Moose · 16-03-2019 10:30pm

greencap wrote: »

DCC will claim the costs of damage to the bridge from the trucking firms insurance right?

Still waters · 16-03-2019 10:43pm

he could have adjusted the height of his fifth wheel for whatever reason, I used have to lower it for the tunnel in limerick as full height would set off the signal, but only northbound as the sensors must have been lower on one side

by any chance has the road been resurfaced recently in that area ?

Or it could be as simple as the driver being used to a different truck and forgot what he was in.
It's unfortunate but accidents happen, he may lose his job and if I'm not mistaken a bridge strike is a mandatory court appearance

greencap · 18-03-2019 9:55pm

Credit Checker Moose wrote: »

is that your step father?

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-03-2019 10:52pm

The bridge at Rathcoole had to be closed for months after a truck hit it

This one won't because it was built to last

How did the truck get stuck under Amiens St bridge yesterday (Fri)

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