A bit of excitement in Prestwich

BWTAC said:
2sheikhs said:
Carstairs said:
Were you OK?
In a fight between a 34t 8 wheeler and a little butty box saxo, there's only 1 winner. :)
The truck had a couple of scratches. She was very lucky. The police said, by rights, she should have died. It landed in the water on it's wheels in medium tide (3ft of water). If it had been high tide, it would be 12-15ft deep and she'd have drowned. Low tide, she have hit solid ground. I eventually accepted a charge of driving without due care and attention and got 4 points and a £200 fine. She was made a local celebrity, was interviewed on gmtv and got given a brand new citroen c2.
I got sacked for gross misconduct, then sued them for unfair dismissal and got £1500. :)

Everyone's a winner then?
My boss hated me though. A couple of months before that, I delivered some stuff to his house in Wilmslow and went tear-arseing into his drive and ripped one of his £5000 gates of it's hinges and twisted his fence. He turned up on site one day and caught me asleep in his truck. And, just as a joke, I told him I'd love to lick his wifes flange.( well,it wasn't really a joke she had a great bod)
 
2sheikhs said:
Them pics remind me of when I caused chaos in Lancaster. I was driving a brand new 34 ton truck on its first day on the road and I sent an old lady in her citroen saxo through the side of a bridge and she had a 30 ft drop into the river lune. The whole place was gridlocked. Fire,police,ambulance, air ambulance and coastguard came out.

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15/11/05, updated 21/11/05: 69-year-old Bernice Dent was rescued by Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft after her car crashed off Skerton Bridge and into the Lune this afternoon.
A major incident was declared after the car, a Citroen Saxo, was hit from behind by a lorry and was went off the Bridge, smashing through the eighteenth century parapet.
Local taxi drive Charlie Moore was one of several people who called emergency services to report the accident. He told the Lancaster Guardian "the car seemed to bounce against the kerb, hit the lorry again and then go straight over. What's remarkable is that the lorry driver didn't even realise what had happened. I had to jump out and flag him down."
The car landed in the river and began to be washed down stream, prompting concern it might damage Lancaster's Millennium bridge supports if it was pushed that far by the curent. In fact it came to rest some 30 meteres from the bridge.
The local air ambulance, fire brigade, ambulances and police were all in attendance at the incident and Skerton Bridge was sealed off to pedestrians until Bernice was rescued about 45 minutes after the accident by the hovercraft crew, to cheers from watching crowds on both sides of the river.
69-year-old Bernice Dent, from Barrow-in-Furness, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary but incredibly, was not seriously hurt despite the fall from the Bridge and released from hospital later in the day.
"i got into the back and started to rsecue my shopping," the Lancaster Guardian later reported. "I've got a walking stick which is a family heirloom and I didn't want to lose that."
 
1.618034 said:
2sheikhs said:
Them pics remind me of when I caused chaos in Lancaster. I was driving a brand new 34 ton truck on its first day on the road and I sent an old lady in her citroen saxo through the side of a bridge and she had a 30 ft drop into the river lune. The whole place was gridlocked. Fire,police,ambulance, air ambulance and coastguard came out.

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15/11/05, updated 21/11/05: 69-year-old Bernice Dent was rescued by Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft after her car crashed off Skerton Bridge and into the Lune this afternoon.
A major incident was declared after the car, a Citroen Saxo, was hit from behind by a lorry and was went off the Bridge, smashing through the eighteenth century parapet.
Local taxi drive Charlie Moore was one of several people who called emergency services to report the accident. He told the Lancaster Guardian "the car seemed to bounce against the kerb, hit the lorry again and then go straight over. What's remarkable is that the lorry driver didn't even realise what had happened. I had to jump out and flag him down."
The car landed in the river and began to be washed down stream, prompting concern it might damage Lancaster's Millennium bridge supports if it was pushed that far by the curent. In fact it came to rest some 30 meteres from the bridge.
The local air ambulance, fire brigade, ambulances and police were all in attendance at the incident and Skerton Bridge was sealed off to pedestrians until Bernice was rescued about 45 minutes after the accident by the hovercraft crew, to cheers from watching crowds on both sides of the river.
69-year-old Bernice Dent, from Barrow-in-Furness, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary but incredibly, was not seriously hurt despite the fall from the Bridge and released from hospital later in the day.
"i got into the back and started to rsecue my shopping," the Lancaster Guardian later reported. "I've got a walking stick which is a family heirloom and I didn't want to lose that."
HAHAHA!! Yeah, that's it. When that taxi driver flagged me down, waving his arms, screaming and shouting, I jumped out of the truck to give him a smack in the mouth until he told me what I'd done.
 
Sobering thought, when our NHS is privatised he would be whisked off to a bus stop, or diagnosed with indigestion and told to get back to work/keep signing on
Worst case; medivac; operation; c.difficile; mortem; invalid insurance; bill plus interest passes to next of kin, who then suffer a cardiac arrest, but as they have not settled will be taken to Scotland by helicopter but brought back until he signs his house over to pay transport costs. The delay proves fatal but the insurers will not release the body until their costs have been met. Which increase daily. The invalid insurance was due to the deceased not declaring his great-grandfather had suffered a suspected heart attack, and inevitably the judge finds in favour of the insurers, castigating the bogus claim culture. The widow of the deceased faces charges of collusion to defraud, participating in a criminal act and harbouring a suspect.
At the funeral an agent of the performing rights society demanded payment for the playing of "always look on the bright side", none forth-coming so the police were called and arrested the rabbi. Luckily a well-known city supporter, who was busy taking pictures of the rumpus was able to point out that a place of worship was in fact a sanctuary, so the police left, after calling for back-up (and phoning the sun newsdesk)
Inevitably health insurance will cost more, the search for loop-holes is expensive and not always productive, as the failure of the judiciary to agree that all heart-attacks are self-induced proves.
Take care, folks
 
2sheikhs said:
1.618034 said:
2sheikhs said:
Them pics remind me of when I caused chaos in Lancaster. I was driving a brand new 34 ton truck on its first day on the road and I sent an old lady in her citroen saxo through the side of a bridge and she had a 30 ft drop into the river lune. The whole place was gridlocked. Fire,police,ambulance, air ambulance and coastguard came out.

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15/11/05, updated 21/11/05: 69-year-old Bernice Dent was rescued by Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft after her car crashed off Skerton Bridge and into the Lune this afternoon.
A major incident was declared after the car, a Citroen Saxo, was hit from behind by a lorry and was went off the Bridge, smashing through the eighteenth century parapet.
Local taxi drive Charlie Moore was one of several people who called emergency services to report the accident. He told the Lancaster Guardian "the car seemed to bounce against the kerb, hit the lorry again and then go straight over. What's remarkable is that the lorry driver didn't even realise what had happened. I had to jump out and flag him down."
The car landed in the river and began to be washed down stream, prompting concern it might damage Lancaster's Millennium bridge supports if it was pushed that far by the curent. In fact it came to rest some 30 meteres from the bridge.
The local air ambulance, fire brigade, ambulances and police were all in attendance at the incident and Skerton Bridge was sealed off to pedestrians until Bernice was rescued about 45 minutes after the accident by the hovercraft crew, to cheers from watching crowds on both sides of the river.
69-year-old Bernice Dent, from Barrow-in-Furness, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary but incredibly, was not seriously hurt despite the fall from the Bridge and released from hospital later in the day.
"i got into the back and started to rsecue my shopping," the Lancaster Guardian later reported. "I've got a walking stick which is a family heirloom and I didn't want to lose that."
HAHAHA!! Yeah, that's it. When that taxi driver flagged me down, waving his arms, screaming and shouting, I jumped out of the truck to give him a smack in the mouth until he told me what I'd done.

You closed Skerton Bridge? You must have caused chaos for days afterwards!
 
2sheikhs said:
1.618034 said:
2sheikhs said:
Them pics remind me of when I caused chaos in Lancaster. I was driving a brand new 34 ton truck on its first day on the road and I sent an old lady in her citroen saxo through the side of a bridge and she had a 30 ft drop into the river lune. The whole place was gridlocked. Fire,police,ambulance, air ambulance and coastguard came out.

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15/11/05, updated 21/11/05: 69-year-old Bernice Dent was rescued by Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft after her car crashed off Skerton Bridge and into the Lune this afternoon.
A major incident was declared after the car, a Citroen Saxo, was hit from behind by a lorry and was went off the Bridge, smashing through the eighteenth century parapet.
Local taxi drive Charlie Moore was one of several people who called emergency services to report the accident. He told the Lancaster Guardian "the car seemed to bounce against the kerb, hit the lorry again and then go straight over. What's remarkable is that the lorry driver didn't even realise what had happened. I had to jump out and flag him down."
The car landed in the river and began to be washed down stream, prompting concern it might damage Lancaster's Millennium bridge supports if it was pushed that far by the curent. In fact it came to rest some 30 meteres from the bridge.
The local air ambulance, fire brigade, ambulances and police were all in attendance at the incident and Skerton Bridge was sealed off to pedestrians until Bernice was rescued about 45 minutes after the accident by the hovercraft crew, to cheers from watching crowds on both sides of the river.
69-year-old Bernice Dent, from Barrow-in-Furness, was taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary but incredibly, was not seriously hurt despite the fall from the Bridge and released from hospital later in the day.
"i got into the back and started to rsecue my shopping," the Lancaster Guardian later reported. "I've got a walking stick which is a family heirloom and I didn't want to lose that."
HAHAHA!! Yeah, that's it. When that taxi driver flagged me down, waving his arms, screaming and shouting, I jumped out of the truck to give him a smack in the mouth until he told me what I'd done.

Just logged in to say fantastic ! "the lorry driver didn't even realise what happened" That's a brilliant story, was in tears reading it through. Glad everyone was ok in the end.
 
Just to add the pics from the story...


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_car.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: The Citroen Saxo which crashed into the River Lune from Skerton Bridge, shortly before Bernice Dent, from Barrow, was rescued by the RNLI and other emergency services. Photo: John Freeman


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_rnli.jpg[/bigimg]

Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft speeds up the Lune to rescue 69-year-old Bernice Dent. Photo: John Freeman



[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: Morecambe's RNLI lifeboat arrives to rescue Bernice Dent from a car which crashed off Skerton Bridge, to cheers from watching crowds. Fire crews police and ambulance are on the Bridge, which was sealed off by mounted police during the incident. Photo: John Freeman
 
1.618034 said:
Just to add the pics from the story...


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_car.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: The Citroen Saxo which crashed into the River Lune from Skerton Bridge, shortly before Bernice Dent, from Barrow, was rescued by the RNLI and other emergency services. Photo: John Freeman


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_rnli.jpg[/bigimg]

Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft speeds up the Lune to rescue 69-year-old Bernice Dent. Photo: John Freeman



[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: Morecambe's RNLI lifeboat arrives to rescue Bernice Dent from a car which crashed off Skerton Bridge, to cheers from watching crowds. Fire crews police and ambulance are on the Bridge, which was sealed off by mounted police during the incident. Photo: John Freeman
Hey come on now pal.
I'm starting to feel like I've wet the bed and you're hanging the bed sheet out of the window to show every fucker. :)
 
2sheikhs said:
1.618034 said:
Just to add the pics from the story...


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_car.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: The Citroen Saxo which crashed into the River Lune from Skerton Bridge, shortly before Bernice Dent, from Barrow, was rescued by the RNLI and other emergency services. Photo: John Freeman


[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105_rnli.jpg[/bigimg]

Morecambe's RNLI hovercraft speeds up the Lune to rescue 69-year-old Bernice Dent. Photo: John Freeman



[bigimg]http://virtual-lancaster.net/news/images/n_crash_151105.jpg[/bigimg]

Above: Morecambe's RNLI lifeboat arrives to rescue Bernice Dent from a car which crashed off Skerton Bridge, to cheers from watching crowds. Fire crews police and ambulance are on the Bridge, which was sealed off by mounted police during the incident. Photo: John Freeman
Hey come on now pal.
I'm starting to feel like I've wet the bed and you're hanging the bed sheet out of the window to show every fucker. :)

Don't shoot the messenger. Amazing what you can find on t'internet... Anyway, you started it!

;-)
 

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