OOPS! Wagon slips off the road.

[Defender]

A 40ft artic slid off the road into a ditch outside work today.
Luckily the axle ground out, or it would have gone all the way into the ditch & fallen over.





"Brown trouser moment for the wagon driver"

I offered my services as an anchor at the front with the County 1174 tractor that was in the yard, along with another passing Case tractor.
A crane was on the way to lift the rear of the trailer back onto the road.

County 1174 at front & Case behind.

Unfortunately I got called away with the County to rescue a bogged down tractor of our own, so didn't actually get involved with or see the recovery.  :roll:

[thermidorthelobster]

How do you slide something like that, on what looks like a slow straight road, at this time of year?

[Disco Matt]

Looking at it I would wonder if he was trying to pull over to allow oncoming traffic through but didn't realise how steep the edge of the tarmac was?

[beast5680]

been there done that :lol: you just pull over a teeny bit to let traffic by and find the edge of the tarmac :lol: luckily i got out of it though

[Defender]

The roads round there were never designed for such large heavy vehicles & are bearly wide enough for two artics to pass each other. I think he moved over to allow another artic to pass going the other way.
It's chaos at times with the amount of artics coming & going, all trying to access the distribution depots for the farm produce companies.
The incident happened HERE & the artics are going to the distribution depot HERE. All the artics have to come in via the small village of Tarleton HERE, which really hacks off the residents.

[jjsaul]

a similar thing happened with a rigid (7.5tonne?) curtainsider at leeds festival, i'll put the pics on when my computer accepts that my phone exists 

[jjsaul]

well its working now so.....

a friend of mine got pics on her camera of the recovery (using a telehandler and a big recovery truck) so i'll get those up soon if i can