Not a good start to the day............

[sevenfourate]

One of our Engineers was working in a quarry today, and had to be on-site early to meet a crane there: in order to lift out a large piece of equipment being refurbished.

He follows said crane off the main road, into the small side-road that leads to the Quarry. Few hundred yards down the road narrows and goes over a small hump-back bridge.

Our man says he never saw the crane slow down despite huge warning signs before the bridge. He then seemingly went over the small bridge; lost the back-end, slewed around a bit, touched the grass bank with its wheels and BOOM !!!! 67 tonnes of crane slid into the ditch on its side......

 

[Big Ben]

Did the driver survive? That is unbelievable

 

[Foxspeed]

need a crane to lift that out!

 

[sevenfourate]

Did the driver survive? That is unbelievable

Passenger was lying ontop of driver on drivers side, which is the low side of the cab as it then sat (Passenger may not have had seatbelt on therefore ?) Both were half submerged in the ditch-water when he jumped over to look. Both got out ok though.

Retrieving the crane is going to be a whole new World altogether however........

 

[Gordini]

Wow that was a big one! Hope he was ok! Bet everyone in the vicinity got a start, must have been a pretty loud bang!!

 

[Big Ben]

Good that they both got out. Give Quinto a buzz to help with the recovery

 

[sevenfourate]

need a crane to lift that out!

Needs two.

And being on a tiny side-road thats passes through marsh-land - where a crane couldn't even get the outriggers out; its going to need a huge amount of preparatory work making solid enough ground for them to both stand on in order to lift.

Raising the Concordia might have been an easier task.........

 

[nutnutwelshman]

That's very scary stuff @sevenfourate hope everyone is OK BUD

 

[Dystant]

Bloody hell! Bet the cranes broken after that. What's a crane worth these days anyway?

Also hope the driver is alright

need a crane to lift that out!

Your post reminds me of this picture I saw years ago

 

[Foxspeed]

lol going to need a bigger crane!

 

[Chris]

Lives are more valuable than metal so main thing nobody was hurt!

Just a job to clean up!

 

[nutnutwelshman]

Bloody hell! Bet the cranes broken after that. What's a crane worth these days anyway?

Also hope the driver is alright



Your post reminds me of this picture I saw years ago

 

[Sean197]

This happened just outside St Andrews last weekend https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...hotos-lorry-crash-causes-carnage-guardbridge/

Then the week before there was this muppet
www.scotsman.com/news/forth-road-bridge-closed-after-lorry-blows-over-in-high-winds-1-4336479/amp

 

[mr freeze]

Scary stuff glad no one got hurt as it could of been a lot worst .

 

[mr freeze]

Bloody hell! Bet the cranes broken after that. What's a crane worth these days anyway?

Also hope the driver is alright



Your post reminds me of this picture I saw years ago

That is unreal

 

[Johnny 99]

Going to be a big job recovering that, but as said glad that nobody appears to have been seriously hurt.

 

[MaxiDave]

Bloody hell! Bet the cranes broken after that. What's a crane worth these days anyway?

Also hope the driver is alright



Your post reminds me of this picture I saw years ago

Them last few pics are photoshopped. Note the blue truck with yellow crane is actually the green truck with orange crane.

 

[Pav]

painful..nasty looking accident..bet those cranes weight a lot..would be interesting to see how they will recover that...
glad everyone was ok..

 

[Dystant]

Them last few pics are photoshopped. Note the blue truck with yellow crane is actually the green truck with orange crane.

Haha never noticed that before! If you take away the photoshopped ones it's still just as funny

 

[Micah]

Gonna need a Chinook or something!