Road vehicles hit UK rail bridges 5 times a day
According to Network Rail figures, there are five incidents a day where road vehicles hit UK rail bridges. Prosecutions, fines and compensation does not solve the issue, they say, and careless road drivers are making the railways less efficient, and at considerable cost to the network.
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As usual lorry drivers get treated more leniently than the rest of us. Try telling the police “Sorry, I failed to see the sign instructing me to do a maximum of 40 mph on this road” and they’ll laugh at you and still put points on your licence because you have a legal obligation to observe these signs. Not seeing the instruction is simply not a mitigating factor. Yet lorry drivers are not automatically docked points for not observing size or weight restrictions on a road. This needs to change.