Another boulder falls on road
10:28am Wednesday 14th May 2008
Comments (6)A BOULDER weighing between 200 and 300 pounds fell off a lorry on Portland.
Police said the 'enormous lump of stone' fell on to a pavement in Chiswell yesterday morning.
It is the second such incident on the island in a week - last Friday a two-ton piece of rock fell off a lorry and damaged a parked vehicle in Easton Square.
A Dorset Police spokesman said the lorry lost the stone shortly before 10am yesterday.
She said no one was hurt and that the vehicle driver arranged for the boulder to be recovered.
Emergency engineer Rod Wallis, from Weymouth, was leaving Portland when he spotted the piece of stone.
He said: "It must have weighed between 200 and 300 pounds and it had fallen straight on to the pavement.
"It was so lucky that no-one was walking along there at that moment, because they would have been killed instantly.
"You watch these lorries coming down the roads with these huge loads and there's never any netting over the top."
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Albo, Wyke Regis says...
3:48pm Wed 14 May 08
Remember to tie your dogs and old people down before driving.
Thank you Tru Belle, thank you.
anneofportland, Portland says...
4:00pm Wed 14 May 08
Tru Belle, purbeck says...
4:05pm Wed 14 May 08
See my post on previous boulder story-from yesterday- that one is a cautionary tale and a half!!
Dorset Guy, Bridport says...
5:16pm Wed 14 May 08
oldandbald, portland says...
6:03pm Wed 14 May 08
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Tru Belle, purbeck says...
1:17pm Wed 14 May 08
Another frightening scenario is seeing a tailgate open,car in motion and a poor dog in the back gripping on with his toenails whilst the driver is oblivious to what is going on.
Another one is car doors not secured properly, usual elderly occupants in the back leaning and unaware they could fall out- or white van man losing half his tools alsation and the rest because the back doors are wide open!!