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Bridge Strike at Pearse Station

  • 20-09-2010 08:18PM
    #1
    godtabh
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    Any one see this? There was some mess after it. I'll try and up load photos tomorrow.

    Don't know if it was a truck or whatever but there seemed to be oil every where


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  • #2
    Dyr
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    godtabh wrote: »
    Any one see this? There was some mess after it. I'll try and up load photos tomorrow.

    Don't know if it was a truck or whatever but there seemed to be oil every where

    Saw it as i was leaving work..glad i was walking into town today because that's usually where i get my bus from..


  • #3
    schemingbohemia
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    so that's what it was, they were spreading some amount of sand on the road when i was heading to Pearse, wasn't sure what caused it. Is that not a really really high bridge? must have been some monster lorry to hit that.

    OT but does anyone know if they ever caught the muppet who damaged the DART overhead lines at Merrion Gates a while back? Never heard any follow up.


  • #4
    ThisRegard
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    It was a dump truck with a crane arm or something like that on it, the arm wasn't fully down and that's what hit the bridge.


  • #5
    schemingbohemia
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    what a moron!


  • #6
    gurramok
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    So thats what caused the traffic mayhem yesterday. It was snails pace from the top of Guild street over to Pearse st/Macken st and inbound to the city as well. Added 20min to my usual journey.

    It's a bit like the old M50, if one lane is blocked, it gridlocks the whole motorway. Yesterday, the city centre in parts were gridlocked all because of this one incident.


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Sounds like it was hydraulic oil spilt, that stuff stinks and will make sh*t of the road surface.


  • #8
    Oliver1985
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    Does anything ever happen to these clowns for keep hitting bridges and pulling down overheads?:mad:


  • #9
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Oliver1985 wrote: »
    Does anything ever happen to these clowns for keep hitting bridges and pulling down overheads?:mad:
    They get humiliated :D
    Iarnrod Eireann wrote:
    The genius truck driver in question had a lifting arm on the back of the truck which pulled down barriers, and extensive overhead wiring (as well as phone wiring in the area), and he subsequently fled the scene. Prosecution will follow.


  • #10
    godtabh
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    pics attached. It was some mess


  • #11
    Oliver1985
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    godtabh wrote: »
    pics attached. It was some mess
    :eek:


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  • #12
    Davy
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    I assumed it was the one on pearse st, rather then the westland row one. That nearly 5 metres high, to hit that, he would have had to have the hiab sticking up in the air!


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