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« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2013, 22:10:48 »
Not much better on the roads today either...

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For those remaining in the UK▸ (United Kingdom), road closures in the West Country made journeys slow following two fatal crashes.

The M5 was closed after a woman was killed as she drove the wrong way along the southbound carriageway, near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.

The woman, in her late 20s or early 30s, died after her blue Ford Ka collided with four vehicles on the motorway.
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The A30 was also closed for most of the morning near Hayle in west Cornwall after a 38-year-old man died in a crash.

He was pronounced dead at the scene following the single-vehicle accident at 3am, while his female passenger was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro with minor injuries, a Devon and Cornwall police spokesman said...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10080463/Slow-start-to-bank-holiday-getaway.html
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« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2013, 13:41:41 »
Quote from: richwarwicker on May 24, 2013, 23:04:48
Regarding the trees down, its been very windy down here in Cornwall today. I've been driving a Mercedes Sprinter van most of day, and I dont recall experiencing getting blown about so much in a vehicle in my 8 years of driving!
Made driving double deckers interesting. Suddenly find yourself veering alarmingly into another lane (especially A30 between Camborne & Redruth on the dual carriageway open viaducts) - oops....
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« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2013, 15:01:39 »
Quote from: GBM on May 26, 2013, 13:41:41
Quote from: richwarwicker on May 24, 2013, 23:04:48
Regarding the trees down, its been very windy down here in Cornwall today. I've been driving a Mercedes Sprinter van most of day, and I dont recall experiencing getting blown about so much in a vehicle in my 8 years of driving!
Made driving double deckers interesting. Suddenly find yourself veering alarmingly into another lane (especially A30 between Camborne & Redruth on the dual carriageway open viaducts) - oops....

The wind finally took advantage of the metal fatigue on the Dennis SLF I was driving as it managed to sheer the offside wing mirror right off the body of the bus.  I didn't half get a shock when a large yellow object flew past the windscreen when negotiating a roundabout, only to look up and find my bus falling to bits.
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