Large stretch of the A52 between the markeaton island roundabout and markeaton lane closed off this morning:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...2.931413,-1.519074&spn=0.019194,0.032229&z=15
Decided to walk it and saw (along with a lot of fire engines, highways maintainance vehicles and police vehicles) an articulated lorry in the middle of the road and a grey golf in a bush.
I hope no one was seriously hurt, but I fear that sentiment may be rather niaive of me. Might hazard a guess that the artic was overtaking where it wasn't safe to and clipped the golf head on. It's a 40mph limit on that road but NO ONE pays attention to it and everything does at least 50mph, often 60 on that road. Hopefully after this they'll do a bit more on enforcing that limit.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...2.931413,-1.519074&spn=0.019194,0.032229&z=15
Decided to walk it and saw (along with a lot of fire engines, highways maintainance vehicles and police vehicles) an articulated lorry in the middle of the road and a grey golf in a bush.
I hope no one was seriously hurt, but I fear that sentiment may be rather niaive of me. Might hazard a guess that the artic was overtaking where it wasn't safe to and clipped the golf head on. It's a 40mph limit on that road but NO ONE pays attention to it and everything does at least 50mph, often 60 on that road. Hopefully after this they'll do a bit more on enforcing that limit.