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Edition No. 154

Date:- 05 June 2004

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NEW ATTRACTION FOR TOWN.... LORRY GETS STUCK...
Photographs by Patrick Trollope
 

EVERYONE is used to Bank Holiday jams, but this was a real show stopper. Around 9:30am a 14ft lorry carrying popcorn to a local business got stuck under the 13ft Southport Pier causing massive traffic disruption throughout the town.

 

The fire service were called to the scene and the road and pier were blocked off. 

Unfortunately the lorry was "wedged in" so tightly that a specialist company had to be called in to let down the tyres on the wagon, before it could be removed. After removal, the lorry's trailer was found to have suffered a lot of damage from the impact. 

The top of the trailer's roof was completely smashed and part of the side of the unit split had open. Luckily the pier was structurally sound and the bridge consultant who inspected the damage declared that only "minimal damage was sustained to the structure."

This accident is one of a spate of accidents this year. Some members of the public and local businesses are asking why warning signs or other devices are not erected other than those on the pier itself. Staff from of the businesses on the Ocean Plaza complex commented, "Luckily no one was hurt in this latest incident, but with a school bus getting trapped under the pier a few weeks ago and others this year and last year, the warning signs need to be addressed. If they erected signs in advance on the Fairway roundabout and on the Esplanade roundabout by Pleasureland, it might help stop this from happening. As soon as they approach the bridge, the lorries and large vehicles cannot manoeuvre around the smaller roundabouts. We suggest the two are made big enough for the lorries to turn around at."

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Click on play to see the lorry being set free.  Video footage taken with the thanks of www.southportchat.com's Barbara Waring.

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