See it looks too low......

[Muban]

.....and it is!!!!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Muban/66935_1453494935088_1164726761_3107.jpg

Taken by a friend this morning on the way to the hospital (the bridge is for the main railway line between Inverness and the south).

[leowyatt]

What an idiot! :/

[Knipples]

Crikey! Has the railway been declared safe?

[Muban]

It seems so, trains are running again now. I'm assuming as it was just the spolier (or whatever the correct name is) it didn't really do any damage other than wedging itself in there!

[leowyatt]

I hate to think what would have happened if his cab was low enough :shocked:

[Dymetrie]

What the fork was be pulling!!??

It looks like something out of a dodgy sci-fi film!

I do, however, quite like the way he's letting the tyres down to fry and get it out :p

[Mark]

Makes a change from a bus I suppose (it's usually them that end up stuck under bridges).

[Zico]

This happened four times in the space of 8 months at a bridge in Dover. Funny the first time but pretty stupid by the end. Network rail had to close the road to carry our repairs over 3 months.

Work was fun (not) having to explain over and over again to members of the public that the road wasn't just closed for fun!

[Muban]

It's happened quite a few times there too. I remember somewhere (can't remember where) it happened so much they set up a beam further up the road and if you broke it's path big warning lights at the side of the road flashed to let you know you weren't going to fit :D

[Justsomebloke]

This used to happen to a bridge in Braintree about once a month.
Looking at the pic if the dude let his tyres down he'd get under.

[Muban]

The cab probably would, not entirely sure about the crane at the back. Hard to tell from the picture, even so..... doh! :)

[Fayshun]

I stood and watched an artic inch its way under a bridge off one of the industrial estates in Peterborough. He pulled up, looked, inched forward, stopped, leaned out the window of the cab, inched forward, stopped, looked out....etc

It took him about 15 minutes. If he'd gone round the long way it'd have taken about 5. :D

[Garp]

Here's a stunning suggestion. Stick a solid item same height clearance as the bridge in advance of it by maybe a couple of hundred yards. That way if some stupid tosser thinks their vehicle will get under the bridge they end up hitting something non-critical.

[Darrin]

I wish I'd gotten a picture of the dumbass last year who tried to take a low rider flat bed across a set of railroad tracks. Wouldn't have been such a bad deal except they were raised tracks. The cab went up the short hill, crossed the tracks and went down the other side. The trailer wheels hadn't gotten to the hill yet when the under side of the trailer lowered down onto the tracks.

About five hours later they'd stopped the train coming, backed it onto a side track and brought in a rail based crane to lift the trailer up...