‘The driver may not be to blame’: Hull motorists have…

Motorists have been having their say after a lorry got stuck beneath a railway bridge in Hull leading to traffic chaos. The HGV became wedged under the bridge on Stoneferry Road which has a clearance of only 15ft, compared to the standard minimum of 16ft 6ins, on Tuesday afternoon (February 28). The incident caused traffic to back up for over two hours on the northbound side, with queues going back past Mount Pleasant roundabout and onto Cleveland Street. A semi-regular occurrence on Hull’s roads, lorries becoming stuck beneath bridges pose a number of questions, the most pertinent being: who is at fault? On the Hull Traffic & Travel page, a number of motorists offered their opinions, including a HGV driver who acknowledges the ‘pressures’ facing those in his profession. Read more: Moment teen driver’s car ‘explodes’ after police chase on road to Humber Bridge Phil, a HGV driver, wrote: “The driver may not be to blame, but only if, as somebody has already said, the road has been relayed too high. However, if the bridge is marked up as 15ft and his trailer is height marked for 15ft, then the driver is in the wrong. “No excuse I know, but there is a lot of pressure on drivers to make timed deliveries. As I have said, this is no excuse for driving the wrong height trailer down a road with height restrictions, but please remember, without HGV drivers, there would be no products being delivered to ANY stores selling to the public, whether it be food, clothes, fuel to petrol stations, etc. “Again, as someone in this chat has already said, we are only professional drivers when SOMETHING GOES WRONG, otherwise in my experience we are a blight to the roads and yes, I totally agree there should be some other way to mark the height of all bridges in the country, like radar markers that measure the height of the vehicle, way before the bridge is
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