Approximately 260m, but that is reportly what occurred - wrong turn at crossing, then carried on until struck bridge. You would think driving over sleepers abd ballast would be rough enough to 'waken' them up to their error.
Accidental turn at level crossing? Or a desperate attempt to flee the police like that case near London a couple of years ago? A high clearance van will probably cope ok with conventional ballast and sleepers, but fail big time on a bridge with timber waybeams, and gaps everywhere between the rails…
Nope - happens regularly in Nottingham on the Lenton Lane tram bridge. There's something silly like 12 no entry/tram only signs, rumble strips, road markings, on approach and once every few months somebody still manages to drives onto the bridge.
I was only guessing in post #8, I hope people don’t think I’m a part time getaway driver…
And it is uninsured , MOT valid till July .
Did you see post #11? I suspect it’s likely nothing at all to do with satnav…
On a dull day I have been known to use the one built into my Land Rover and the one in my smartphone at the same time, quite often they'll have different routes in mind.
Sat navs sometimes deliberately guide their users down a longer route to their destination so that they can gather accurate data on how long that route takes. There are always multiple routes between two points and sat navs need to display to their users how long each of those routes will take. It is by occasionally picking a random user as a "guinea pig" that they gather that data.
Images of Mini Coopers a la The Italian Job spring to mindA hobby exists involving members of the public writing down numbers of vehicles on the railway. This is clearly an attempt to frustrate them collecting all the instances of this class.
Perhaps a heritage railway will host this Transit as visiting traction on an upcoming diesel gala…
As much as some people like to theorise this every now and then, there is no evidence or admission that this happens. However what does happen in a fair few systems is a objectively longer route will be offered, under the principle that while for one user the route is quicker, if everyone took it the route becomes the longer one.
Like trespassing on the railway and obstructing the railway...?
Inserts picture of that Class 37 in Police livery...
