Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch!

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Fri 11 Feb 2005 22:08
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Hugo {P}
Just like to share this with you all as I'm feeling a little smug.

This week I have been working in a house on the main road leading into a village.

Suffice to say, a lorry got into difficulties as it was trying to manovre and was met head on by another lorry.

First lorry has to back up, move forward etc to allow 2nd lorry to pass (lights were with 2nd lorry).

When the lights changed to the first lorry, he must have missed a gear. He rolled back and then engaged the clutch, not before he totalled the corner of a felt roof at the front of a property fronting the main road.

I got all but one letter or his reg and went to inform the owner of reg, description, time of incident.

I received a call from the Police that day asking me a few questions, really testing my memory and confidence in what I had told the owner. And was advised I receive a questionnaire to fill in.

I have it on good authority that the lorry has been traced and hopefully the owner will receive the necessary funds to have the repair carried out by a competent tradesman. I of course handed the owner my business card with my contact details on it:)

H
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Fri 11 Feb 2005 22:11
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Pugugly {P}
I applaud you for your public spirited action. Lucky it had a rear number plate eh ?
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Fri 11 Feb 2005 22:16
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Hugo {P}
Exactly, that's what got me thinking.

IMO there's nothing to be gained by simply ignoring a situation you could help to resolve, especially as he'll need that damage repairing now ;)

To be fair, he may not have realised he had done it. I'm not saying that's likely but him knowing cannot be a foregone conclusion.

My goodness, I should take up law :)
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Fri 11 Feb 2005 22:22
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Pugugly {P}
You could be called as a witness - that's what the form they're sending you is all about - probably a pro-forma witness statement.
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Fri 11 Feb 2005 22:24
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Hugo {P}
I thought so

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Sat 12 Feb 2005 22:12
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - pastyman
Lucky it had a rear number plate eh?,
Is that a suggestion that we truckers drive around with no number plates ?. It may seem so, but the vast majority of the trailers i pull about are of a Belgian/Dutch/German origin and as such are supplied with their own number plates as the authorities register their trailers seperately from the tractor units. On the rear of these trailers the number plate is usually fixed to the rear under run bar between the lights, 99.9% of the time there is no facility to afix a uk style square number plate, that is why a lot of number plates are held on with two chains or bungee straps.
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Sat 12 Feb 2005 22:19
Lorry Damage - Successful Snitch! - Pugugly {P}

Not a dig at lorry drivers. A tilt at another windmill in another thread (see Caveman's thread about the number plateless Metro)
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