The works wagon had a little accident.

[paul04]

A few weeks ago I was off work for a couple of weeks on holiday, I am a delivery driver. they got a temporary driver in to cover.
A transit van pulled out of a side road, and clipped the back of the wagon, the wagon was overtaking a parked car so he was out in the middle of the road, the van driver (who was turning left) looked right, and just pulled out.
If the van driver would have looked both ways, he would have noticed the wagon.

The wagon just had a bent tail lift arm, the van as you can see had quiet a bit of damaged.

 

[byegad]

Yes it's amazing how much damage the other guy gets when it hits a wagon. My younger son was driving a wagon with a full load of large logs and some woodchips and towing a 2.5t chipper behind when overtaken as he pulled away from some lights by WVM, going ahead from the right turn only lane!!!
WVM managed to clip the bumper of the truck bending it forward, which opened the hand throttle* hidden their wide open. The result was T boned white van as the truck pushed it for a few yards festooned across the truck's front bumper. It apparently looked like a white banana by the time my son declutched the racing engine and stopped some several tons of lorry, load and trailer. WVM wasn't happy but the off duty PC some cars behind sorted it with a brief call to the station!
Cost of repairing the truck was minimal, a large sledge hammer putting the bumper back into line at the road side and a tin of black paint repainting the scratched bumper later. The van was a write off.

*There to control the log handling crane from alongside the vehicle.

 

[young Ed]

it's all your fault, if you hadn't have gone on holiday they wouldn't of had to get in a sh**e temporary driver
how dare you go on holiday
Cheers Ed