Take A Peek

[choux]

at this video:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-49278763/lorry-stuck-on-notoriously-steep-tower-hill

Unbelievable error of judgement by the driver.

Poor home owner in Haverfordwest. It looks as though the upstairs window has had a knock, let alone the plaster @ 10 and 22 secs. :(

[Mamyalynne]

Gracious, they have managed to tow it away thankfully.

[jno]

can they sue the sat nav people? (If that's what happened.)

[ducksie]

That's mad but I've seen it a few times in a town near me, the lorries coming off the ferry from Wales to Ireland pass this town, misjudge the narrown windin streets and hit into houses etc., what amazes me, the houses are rebuilt and people stay living there like sitting ducks even though they get hit so often. I dunno why they don't put a ringroad around it though

[TonyV]

Jno sat nav just gives directions.

[jno]

giving out wrong directions that cause damage might be grounds for action.

[TonyV]

Jno depends on your cover, how will sat nav know when it's raining?

[choux]

I rather think that lack of basic common sense and an inability to programme a sat nav with routes to be avoided might be grounds for action.

[choux]

If the lorry was bound for Ireland the ferry route is well sign posted and those roads are more than capable of taking large freight.

[Buenchico]

Some satnavs are marketed specifically for drivers of articulated lorries. They warn of low bridges and avoid routes along narrow, twisted roads. However they tend to cost a great deal more than satnavs for car drivers, so many lorry drivers (or their employers) just buy 'ordinary' satnavs, resulting in lorry drivers following routes which are suitable for cars but not for trucks.

On one of the approaches to the town I live in, there's a 'Do not follow satnav' sign for drivers of high vehicles, telling them that they need to turn right ahead (instead of continuing straight on). At the junction where they need to turn, there are two more 'Do not follow satnav' signs on the straight-ahead route, with one on each side of the road:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/Satnav1565294227.jpg

Those signs are there to back up the normal 'low bridge ahead' signs, which drivers will have already have passed at that point. However that doesn't seem to stop lorries (and big vans) carrying straight on. The bridge got hit 43 times over a 5-year period
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/the-most-bashed-bridge-in-suffolk-leads-to-nearly-100-hours-of-rail-delays-1-5251582
but that doesn't count the vans that get stuck under it nearly every day (without Network Rail ever getting to know about it, as the vans are freed by their drivers letting the tyres down), the vans that havee their roof-mounted amber lights ripped off almost every day and the countless lorry drivers who arrive at the bridge and then have to find a way to turn or back up:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/satnav21565295259.jpg

Why, I wonder, are the words 'Do not follow sat nav' so difficult for drivers to comprehend?