Hope no-one’s waiting for a guitar or amp from Parcelforce ...

sev112

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/17648278.chaos-on-the-roads-after-vehicle-comes-off-flyover-in-reading/?fbclid=IwAR3U___tBIvQMb1uXTQ7rH1oC8cBTEFeMP7iAUjIk9vDq9uRe_pCoTgieL4

Driver apparently ok

boogieman

Wow! Glad he’s ok. 

Philtre

@SteveF Good job we went with Royal Mail in the end, eh? ;-)

SteveF

 ouch!

ICBM

I wonder if their vehicle insurance company will pay out, or if there's some exclusion in the small print which they didn't tell Parcel Farce about when they paid for it?

Moominpapa

Driving in Reading will do that to you; suddenly you despair of life in general and head for the side rail.

Jonathangus

Drove past that earlier this evening.  Looked nasty.  Was wondering how someone could flip something like that, then discovered it'd fallen off the flyover.  Astonishing the driver was able to climb out.

Majorscale

2:1 odds my parcel was on it! Let’s see if it turns up tomorrow looking a bit squashed. 

jonnyburgo

Majorscale said:

2:1 odds my parcel was on it! Let’s see if it turns up tomorrow looking a bit squashed. 

Nah, a copper will be sat playing it in his front room by now...

skullfunkerry

'A Parcelforce lorry landed near the roundabout'. There's a sentence you don't read every day!

Glad (and amazed) that the driver is ok though

ICBM

skullfunkerry said:

'A Parcelforce lorry landed near the roundabout'. There's a sentence you don't read every day!

Glad (and amazed) that the driver is ok though

Very lucky it went fully upside down, by the look of it. If it had landed on the cab it would probably have been a different outcome.

57Deluxe

Thought you were gonner say cos one turned up on your doorstep!

So gets me thinking... if a bit of gear was wrongly delivered to your door and left unsigned, would you deny all knowledge and keep it??

MattBanshee

Having lived in that area and commuted that route daily for several years; you'd have to be the very, very top grade of shit driver to be able to get off the side of that bridge.

ICBM

MattBanshee said:

Having lived in that area and commuted that route daily for several years; you'd have to be the very, very top grade of shit driver to be able to get off the side of that bridge.

According to the witness in a car on the flyover, it was on the opposite carriageway and crossed right over before going through the barrier.

boogieman

ICBM said:

MattBanshee said:

Having lived in that area and commuted that route daily for several years; you'd have to be the very, very top grade of shit driver to be able to get off the side of that bridge.

According to the witness in a car on the flyover, it was on the opposite carriageway and crossed right over before going through the barrier.

Driver fell asleep or got distracted maybe? That’s a serious amount of shit going on!! 

Jonathangus

boogieman said:

ICBM said:

MattBanshee said:

Having lived in that area and commuted that route daily for several years; you'd have to be the very, very top grade of shit driver to be able to get off the side of that bridge.

According to the witness in a car on the flyover, it was on the opposite carriageway and crossed right over before going through the barrier.

Driver fell asleep or got distracted maybe? That’s a serious amount of shit going on!! 

Possibly.  Just before that point, there's a slip road.  It's one of those where people change their mind at the last minute and change lanes to continue straight.  If you make something that size swerve suddenly, it could easily cross the central reservation (there's no barrier at that section) and lose control.

MattBanshee

Jonathangus said:

boogieman said:

ICBM said:

MattBanshee said:

Having lived in that area and commuted that route daily for several years; you'd have to be the very, very top grade of shit driver to be able to get off the side of that bridge.

According to the witness in a car on the flyover, it was on the opposite carriageway and crossed right over before going through the barrier.

Driver fell asleep or got distracted maybe? That’s a serious amount of shit going on!! 

Possibly.  Just before that point, there's a slip road.  It's one of those where people change their mind at the last minute and change lanes to continue straight.  If you make something that size swerve suddenly, it could easily cross the central reservation (there's no barrier at that section) and lose control.

Isn't that part of the flyover a one-way section? I don't think there is a central reservation. Also, it seems to have happened dead-centre, well after the slip-road.

ICBM

Looking at where it landed and the gap in the railing, it must have gone through at nearly a right angle to the road, and it does look like it would have originally been travelling from left to right in the pic.

Jonathangus

It's here: https://goo.gl/maps/V2dNdrTDahm7WUf46

If I'm understanding the description from the driver of the following car correctly, it was going north-east-ish on the A329 (as ICBM says, left to right in the pic), it's crossed the central reservation, over two lanes, gone through the south side of the fence and landed with its rear pointing roughly at Evans Cycles.  If you look at StreetView at that point, you can see that the central reservation is only about the height of a kerb.  If you lose control, there's not much to stop you.

Gassage

He's Eastbound....and Down.