RE: Roadworks Kill
Friday 19th July 2002
Roadworks Kill
1,300 people were killed or injured in roadworks and what's being done? Leaflets are being handed out...
Discussion
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Best I have seen was numpty truck driver with full load of new BMW's. Ignored all signs regarding reduced height restrictions and ended up wedged under the falsework of the bridge we were working on! F***ING SCARY when you are working on the bridge!
I saw an excellent one the other day, an artic lorry at a halt just before a low bridge. This road has armco all along it as it runs in the centre of two other roads. It is single lane in each direction so not wide enough to turn. He will have to reverse a distance of over two miles to get to the nearest point he can leave the road. There are huge warning signs saying no HGV, low bridge, max height 3.x metres. He must be a numpty lorry driver! (This is the road out to the airport in Budapest).
I did laugh a lot!
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We must ensure we do not jeopardise their lives by keeping to the speed limits and following these six simple guidelines."
The guidelines he refers to are detailed in a leaflet issued by the Highways Agency:
Keep to the speed limit - it is there for your safety
Get into the correct lane in good time - don't keep switching
Concentrate on the road ahead, not the roadworks
Be alert for works traffic leaving or entering roadworks
Keep a safe distance - there could be queues in front
Observe all signs - they are there to help you
6 rules? Numpties have problems keeping their cars on the road as it is without trying to get them to remember new rules! These are normally the same peolpe who drive at 40 regardless if they are in a town or on a NSL road.
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Best I have seen was numpty truck driver with full load of new BMW's. Ignored all signs regarding reduced height restrictions and ended up wedged under the falsework of the bridge we were working on! F***ING SCARY when you are working on the bridge!
Reminds me of the accident I saw once. A giraffe was being transported on a lorry which drove under a low bridge and kerrrrsplat-crunch!
Oh okay... I didn't actually see it, but I have always wanted to see that happen.
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Keep to the speed limit - it is there for your safety
Get into the correct lane in good time - don't keep switching
Concentrate on the road ahead, not the roadworks
Be alert for works traffic leaving or entering roadworks
Keep a safe distance - there could be queues in front
Observe all signs - they are there to help you
So we only have to follow these rules in road works then? Yipee, no speed limits everywhere else, and no need to keep a safe distance or concentrate on the road ahead!!!!
Just how stupid do these people think we are? In fact dont answer that, it may be too upsetting
I have worked in lane closures on motorways and seen HGV's drift into the cones sending them flying.
If anyone had been working in that area it could have been very nasty.
I have also expirience "boy racers" weaving in and around cones too. We now put rope from cone to cone to prevent this happening.
Alex
If anyone had been working in that area it could have been very nasty.
I have also expirience "boy racers" weaving in and around cones too. We now put rope from cone to cone to prevent this happening.
Alex
Weaving in and out of cones? Done that on me bike, relieves the boredom of 40mph roadworks.
Seriously, this is so spot on. Motorways are safe until there is an unexpected obstruction. Why is it that its always lorries which plough into the obstruction? Cos they are alseep.
My brother in law drives them, he drinks energy drinks to try to keep awake, but still ran into the back of another truck and wrote off a £30k rig when he dozed off.
Why? Long hours yes, but more probably 56mph speed limit induced trance. Like the numpties in the middle lane at 70, only worse.
Give me 120 in the outside line every time, adrenaline is good, adrenaline works!
>> Edited by philshort on Sunday 21st July 09:03
Seriously, this is so spot on. Motorways are safe until there is an unexpected obstruction. Why is it that its always lorries which plough into the obstruction? Cos they are alseep.
My brother in law drives them, he drinks energy drinks to try to keep awake, but still ran into the back of another truck and wrote off a £30k rig when he dozed off.
Why? Long hours yes, but more probably 56mph speed limit induced trance. Like the numpties in the middle lane at 70, only worse.
Give me 120 in the outside line every time, adrenaline is good, adrenaline works!
>> Edited by philshort on Sunday 21st July 09:03
I also once worked on the motorways where cones were being set up and dismantled every day.
It is possibly the most dangerous job I have seen. The work itself is fairly easy but guessing what the numpties will do is deadly.
The problem we found with roping the cones was that someone would hit one and then pull down a huge great line of them - well 50m of them
We found that despite putting out around 20 signs advising of the proposed lane closure people still drove into the taper of cones at the start of the works.
Do numpties ever look out the window???
In my experience lorry drivers were some of the best drivers and it was always the cars that ended up in the cones - appart from at night when bored with doing 56mph some lorry drivers were obviously dozing.
Either way you certainly get a twitching feeling when your stood in Lane 3 in a motorway lane closure with traffic blasting past at 70mph+, especially when you see the drivers are not paying any attention.
It is possibly the most dangerous job I have seen. The work itself is fairly easy but guessing what the numpties will do is deadly.
The problem we found with roping the cones was that someone would hit one and then pull down a huge great line of them - well 50m of them
We found that despite putting out around 20 signs advising of the proposed lane closure people still drove into the taper of cones at the start of the works.
Do numpties ever look out the window???
In my experience lorry drivers were some of the best drivers and it was always the cars that ended up in the cones - appart from at night when bored with doing 56mph some lorry drivers were obviously dozing.
Either way you certainly get a twitching feeling when your stood in Lane 3 in a motorway lane closure with traffic blasting past at 70mph+, especially when you see the drivers are not paying any attention.
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We found that despite putting out around 20 signs advising of the proposed lane closure people still drove into the taper of cones at the start of the works.
Do numpties ever look out the window???
Seen a bloke in a vectra do this on the bridge works at ilchester on the A303 a few months ago while he was trying to nudge his way in all i could do is point and laugh at him on the way past along with many other people , Bet he felt like numpty of the year that day
Should do likethe Japenese and only have roadworks during the night(ok not outside houses)
Also read that they only allow HGV's in major cities during the night(some car mag report).
Isnt it about time we tried some of these ideas rather than joe bloggs having to pay to go into his own capital.
Sorry rant over(coat aquired)
Also read that they only allow HGV's in major cities during the night(some car mag report).
Isnt it about time we tried some of these ideas rather than joe bloggs having to pay to go into his own capital.
Sorry rant over(coat aquired)
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