Truck destroys bridge in Turkey - amazing video
 

No fatalities, now thats amazing!!

CCTV footage of a truck smashing into a pedestrian footbridge in Istanbul earlier this week has been released by police.
The video shows the truck, travelling with its dumper raised, destroying the bridge as it careers into it.
One pedestrian crossing the bridge was injured during the incident, but amazingly no-one was killed.
Police are investigating why the truck was travelling with its dumper raised.

YouTube - Turkey Istanbul truck accident (1 person injured) 25.01.2010

'edited' Better video angle added http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1N5SNDtok

Rob :thumb:

Owch :eek:

F*ckk! He might get the sack for that wee mishap.

why was he driving with the fooking bed up anyways the bloody tool ??

Could have left the PTO engaged and a slight hydaulic leak on the valve that slowely pushed the ram up whilst he was driving.

We had a JCB that used to do that, despite the controls being rebuilt twice.

Other than that the tipper could have jammed in the up position (they often do as many use gravity to come back down, and with wear and tear and lack of lube they can jam in the up position), so he may have drove off with it raised :rolleyes:

Would have had to be playing with his ipad not to notice tho :(

Those folks on the walkway were very lucky.

shocking, how could he not know.

Apparently he was tipping salt on the roads.
Watch this vid, even after the devastation cars still carry on through the carnage.:cuckoo:

YouTube - Truck Crashes Into Pedestrian Bridge

wooooooo :eek: you can actually see a person walking across the bridge fall straight down. ouch man !!!!!

dan

the one just about to 'bridge the gap' went down with the masonary :(

Because he's a dopey foreigner :D

Truck driver acts somewhat stunned.

It happened near me a couple of years back although not with a foot bridge.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/g7prs/lorry.jpg

Where's the truck? Bet the corsa driver pooped his pants!

Not to mention probably a Muslim too :rolleyes:

thought that then the tipper was raised it activates the emergency air brake?????

what must have been going through that blokes mind who fell down with the bridge......

Well if you watch the video it is clear...


...the roof the walkway!

he actually stopped walking and watched the tipper hit the bridge.if you could see that about to happen would you not turn and run like fcuk the other way?

He was with half the world who would imagine the bridge was built to clear these sort of eventualites

maybe so but your eyes dont lie

coming to a motorway near you ;)

sorry, but any excuse that tit of a so called lorry driver has tried to give is obviously billshut! i (as do many others on here i am sure) drive wagons for a living and any driver will tell you that you tend to check your MIRRORS moreso than in a car. he would of known that it was up, surely? what worries me is the likes of these foreign drivers on our roads today, for eg. the truck driver on the m6 last year found guilty of killing that family that was on his LAPTOP!!!!!

he must have known, my 26 tonne volvo sways with the body raised even in the slightest of wind. travelling at that speed in that situation he must have realised something was wrong, or of course he could have been pissed.

I don't know, judging other drivers by your own standards doesn't seem to work IMO. Today I was stuck behind a Polish rigid car transporter towing a second two level transporter trailer, which was probably loaded top heavy.

Something was up on his air suspension as it was swaying to and fro like a drunk in an earthquake. When I finally had the guts to gun it and overtake, I noted in the mirror that the driver seemed to be eating a sandwich :mad:

I've seen truck drivers eating AND texting whilst steering with their knees at the same time :eek:

:eek2: He survived!!!!

What a wally . . .

You must have a very high seating position in your MX5, or is it the Scooby?

Thats was a pretty frightening video alright.

Les

I was thinking the same thing, maybe Pete has a "special" MX-5......













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