TowTruck hit the bridge
check this out- he hit hard too
i found this at: http://www.woking.co.uk/news/article/article_id=14293.html
this is the full story from the web site:
TOW TRUCK WEDGED UNDER MAYBURY ARCH
26/05/2005
MAYBURY Hill was closed for several hours on Tuesday after a rescue vehicle hit the Maybury Arch railway bridge and became wedged beneath it.
An On Time Rescue Scania tow truck had been towing a lorry when its winch hit the bridge at around 2.30pm.
Rod Maynard, manager of nearby shop AJ Akehurst and Son, said: �I just heard an almighty bang and there she was stuck under the railway bridge.�
The truck became wedged under the bridge at a 30-degrees angle with its rear tow bar digging into the tarmac on the road. The impact lifted the cab truck into the air so that it touched the under-side of the bridge.
The cab�s windscreen was cracked, the steel cables of the winch had snapped and hydraulic fluid was leaking from the vehicle. Police said the driver had got out of the cab uninjured.
The bridge carries railway lines from Woking to London, and has a clearance height of 4.1 metres.
Police were on the scene quickly as a police community support officer had been on the beat nearby.
PCSO Sultan Khan told the News and Mail: �As soon as I got to the scene, my priority was to stop the traffic and people from going underneath the bridge.�
Police cordoned off the road while dealing with the situation.
Initially trains were stopped from using the bridge but as soon as a team from Network Rail confirmed it was safe, trains were allowed across at 20mph.
While a crew from On Time Rescue worked to free the truck, the railway line near the point of impact was closed as a precaution in case the winch was the only thing supporting that section of the bridge.
The recovery crew had to remove the lorry that the On Time truck had been towing before a crew member could climb into the cab to lower the winch. This operation righted the truck.
The truck could then be moved, allowing a highways maintenance team from Surrey County Council to repair the hole in the road left by the truck�s tow bar.
After the bridge had been checked and the truck towed away, police reopened the road at 6.19pm
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