See how big that thing is! I have found these lying at the side of the roads when we do cable track inspections. Wow stay clear of trucks when locosting.

A motorist was killed when a metal shackle smashed through his windscreen and hit him on the head.

The 43-year-old driver of a Rover Metro died instantly on the A334 Winchester Road near Shedfield on Friday.

Hampshire Police said the shackle hit the driver in the head before exiting through the rear windscreen. The Metro left the road and hit an embankment.

It is not known whether the bolt fell from a lorry or was on the road and was thrown up by the wheels of a vehicle.

In a separate incident nearby, a lorry sustained a puncture caused by a shackle pin, police said.

Identification of the driver is expected to take a few days.

Investigating officers would like to speak to anyone who may have struck an object in the same place, or from anyone who may have recently lost similar items from their vehicle on the road.
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Investigating officers would like to speak to anyone who may have struck an object in the same place, or from anyone who may have recently lost similar items from their vehicle on the road.

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I also read that yesterday

Strangely enough, t'other half was coming home from work last week on the M25, around J9, motoring away happily in the VXT, when, from the car in front, a brake pad came flying off... ....bouncing along the carriageway, and under the VXT (heard it hit underneath, but no damage).

When I read that news item above, it bought home, as to just how very, very lucky DLT was.

As Mango says, be very careful in your 7's, and keep your distance......

Fozzie

Ive seen loads of stuff at the road sides when we inspect cable tracks. And twice just recently I had a truck drop a kilo or two of type one on the van as he was rounding the bend coming the other way.

Another was a rock thrown up from a tipper that starred the screen.

think I will up grade to bullet resistant glass

Full face helmets are a MUST for any open top locost type car........

Can't believe the millions to one chance of that happening......

MOz

I remember once following a truck on my bike. It was rather warm so opened my visor for a bit then dropped it down. A couple of seconds after I dropped it down I saw a small stone drop off the back of the truck. It hit the road quite slowly but then shot straight at me like a bullet hitting me near dead center of the visor leaving a decent chip in it. A couple of seconds earlier and that would probably had been the bridge of my nose smashed and me lying in the gutter.

The amount of HGVs carrying rubbish/aggrgate/scrap I've seen badly/over loaded really is worrying.

I had 2 incidents where things have hit the car.

One I was driving up the M2 at night when there was a load bang and something hit the drivers side window. Next morning a clear inprint of a lorry tyre could be seen on the glass. Really glad it wasn't a warm night.

Second one was just before christmas this year on a cold morning. Just left home going up the a130 and this guy came up behind me caning a Ford Ka (100+). I guess cold mornings and 100+ don't mix that close to home. I pulled back out behind once he was gone then next thing I know oil slick smoke and something metalic came out bounced on the road and hit my bonnet, for the brief instead I saw it looked vaguely conrod shaped but I could be wrong. Left a dent in the bonnet though really glad it wasn't the screen/my face.

Very very unlucky The chances of it happening must be slim, but it is amazing how much rubbish there is laying at the side of the road.

I always keep a long way back from anything that looks like it has a badly secured load. At least then you stand some chance of avoiding it if something does come off.

On the way back to uni a couple of weeks ago, we were overtaken by a people carrier with a very large window frame cable tied to the roof bars. As it came past at 90+ we all said 'that doesnt look very well secured'

Got about another 5 miles down the A14, loads of brake lights/hazards and everyone came to a halt. About 2 cars infront, the frame had come off and was laying in the outside lane of the A14. Amazingly no one had hit it, how I will never know. Someone jumped out and pulled it off the road, and we all carried on.

Several years ago, we had a bolt go through the front wing of our old car, chucked up by one of the mowers cutting the verge. Could have been nasty, in slightly different circumstances!

Which takes us back to a point I have stressed loads a times......

Don't forget, get a decent visor....... you may buy a £20 helmet for use in the car but buy a £30 visor for it.

You only got one head.

The things that have got me a few times are those small wagons used by builders to carry sand and gravel around.

Come up at speed behind on of them without a helmet or goggles and you get blinded by flying grit... you can't see any sign of it, but you can certainly feel it!

had somthing simalar in the mk2 escort came up behind a skip wagon which promtly droped a brick infront of me at 50 mph i thought i had avoided it till i got home not so a wiped out pair of cibbies wes the result was gutted but could have been far worse on reflection

Going up Bluebell Hill on the way to my SVA, I was following a friend (moral support), when he drove over a long bendy woodsaw. He didn't see it as it was laying flat.

It saw it after it got flipped 15 feet in the air

I had a helmet on, but was thinking my neck, all of a sudden, fell rather exposed.

ATB

Simon

Incident I remember so clearly - mainly because a leaf of one of the truck's springs shattered. As it was under load, and therefore bunged up with energy, a length of three-eights thick spring steel shot across the road in front of me. I was on foot at the time, so I searched out the potentially offensive lump of metal.
Looked like a fatigue failure. Could have been much worse - for me!

[Edited on 7/5/07 by Dick Axtell]

That reminds me - many years ago I had a slow puncture, so I took the wheel to a tyre fitter, expecting the removal of a small nail and then a repair plug fitted.

The fitter winced when he'd got the tyre off - pulled out about 4" of coil spring that must have been lying in the road!

Needless to say, the tyre carcase was trashed...

Had a very similar thing with a spring recently. Going round a corner into Weddon near the A5, had a scarp car lorry coming the other way, only to throw a full size coil spring at my van! I braked, it hit the front underside and shot off up the road in pursuit of the learner driver I had been following! It landed about 3 feet off the back of the car and boinged into the hedge! Very close call, as there was no way he/she would've seen it coming.

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Incident I remember so clearly - mainly because a leaf of one of the truck's springs shattered. As it was under load, and therefore bunged up with energy, a length of three-eights thick spring steel shot across the road in front of me. I was on foot at the time, so I searched out the potentially offensive lump of metal.
Looked like a fatigue failure. Could have been much worse - for me!

[Edited on 7/5/07 by Dick Axtell]

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Twice we had the traffic police at the work following up on two vans who dropped extention ladders on following cars.........
Supervisior tried to say it wasnt our install guys till the cops pulled out the ladder flat as a pancake with the compay name the vans registration and the drivers name Guy was late for work and went to report his ladders stolen at the police station.......
Got a pretty large bill for the three cars he trashed.



the other one dropped it in the a92 and a car drove over it damaging the sump.with out stopping......didnt get far after that


still reported to police and the lad owned up