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[hiluxman]

I'll just leave this here.....

So agricultural get exemption for prity much anything then.

Not saying that I agree or disagree with the rules but I know that I had a hired in machine and the police said that the bald tyre wasn't prosicuatable...only that if there was severe or obvious damage it'd become an offence.

 

[V8Druid]

Site down the road from me for six new houses has just opened up and as I went past yesterday saw them using what looked like a brand new fast track and tipper trailer for the muck away. How can this possibly be cost effective compared to tippers? Unless the farmer is losing all the spoil on his land at no cost to him I guess.

going on everywhere you look 'round here

 

[Lancs Lad]

going on everywhere you look 'round here

Same...I even accidentally advised the EA of one because he's an utter total tw*t. NADA didn't even respond to the report. Waste of time

 

[DaveDCB]

Same...I even accidentally advised the EA of one because he's an utter total tw*t. NADA didn't even respond to the report. Waste of time

What you really saw was a nesting bird under the tractor cab….

 

[JD450A]

The E.A have been told enough times by enough people to wait in certain laybys for Tractors, Transits and Trailers....... They are useless and concerned only with chasing organisations with paperwork they can threaten on technicalities to line there nests.

DVSA are much the same..... A few "agricultural inspectors" launched into the countryside which actually know there s**t could work wonders.....

The issue with all of it is 1950's laws for a 2050 society.....

 

[Lancs Lad]

#stevenslaw #roadsafety #transportsafety #agriculturalvehicles #dvsa | Rachel Sargeant | 22 comments

Today is an incredibly important and emotional day for our family. Philip Baker has today been sentenced to eight years in prison and disqualified from driving for nine years after being found guilty of causing the death of my brother, Dr Steven Lee, by dangerous driving. Steven was killed on...

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[Monkeybusiness]

#stevenslaw #roadsafety #transportsafety #agriculturalvehicles #dvsa | Rachel Sargeant | 22 comments

Today is an incredibly important and emotional day for our family. Philip Baker has today been sentenced to eight years in prison and disqualified from driving for nine years after being found guilty of causing the death of my brother, Dr Steven Lee, by dangerous driving. Steven was killed on...

lnkd.in

I saw that elsewhere - horrible for all involved. Seems a very harsh sentence for essentially having no flashing beacon though. I’m not sure if that would have made much difference to the outcome.

 

[JD450A]

#stevenslaw #roadsafety #transportsafety #agriculturalvehicles #dvsa | Rachel Sargeant | 22 comments

Today is an incredibly important and emotional day for our family. Philip Baker has today been sentenced to eight years in prison and disqualified from driving for nine years after being found guilty of causing the death of my brother, Dr Steven Lee, by dangerous driving. Steven was killed on...

lnkd.in

And all for a Beacon....

Personally though I've mixed views. I do a lot of miles along the A38 which is practically a motorway (it does not really have unregulated entrances onto the highway from fields and such like as it was always intended to become part of the M5) including with the wheeldigger.

The amount of spazwombles who cannot notice a 10t digger yomping along lit up like it's Christmas is incredible.

And that's on a road that your not having to pull out on.

Needs to be more accountability in the UK. Likewise the amber beacon thing is badly publicised and enforced. I'm sure the biker was totally only doing 70......

 

[Canal Navvy]

A quick read of newspaper articles seems to suggest that he didn't stop after the impact and tried to hide his tractor and trailer at another farm

 

[Lancs Lad]

And all for a Beacon....

Personally though I've mixed views. I do a lot of miles along the A38 which is practically a motorway (it does not really have unregulated entrances onto the highway from fields and such like as it was always intended to become part of the M5) including with the wheeldigger.

The amount of spazwombles who cannot notice a 10t digger yomping along lit up like it's Christmas is incredible.

And that's on a road that your not having to pull out on.

Needs to be more accountability in the UK. Likewise the amber beacon thing is badly publicised and enforced. I'm sure the biker was totally only doing 70......

Hence I posted it.
Yes it was obviously a farm spec setup but struggling to see how that actually caused the accident apart from the amber beacon?

Obviously there was events afterwards which must have contributed to his sentence. Interesting one

 

[6feetdown]

I saw that elsewhere - horrible for all involved. Seems a very harsh sentence for essentially having no flashing beacon though. I’m not sure if that would have made much difference to the outcome.

Yeah does tbf but obviously don't know the whole story

 

[V8Druid]

aside from the beacon issue, he was probably crawling along, there are several turns onto the A40 (a DC) from side roads in that area with virtually zero slip ons, just a junction - I know it well -
the fact that the traccy /trailer combo should not have been on the road / was unfit to be there, is an almost certain contributory factor to the sentence's severity.
Plus, as Rory says the additional circumstances.
let's be fair, it is high time that ag. vehicles were subject to far harsher scrutiny, regular inspection and requirements to comply with a level of safety that all other motorised road users have to adhere to
and then start on the bloody cyclists, who for the most part are bloody clueless