Just to add. The house was badly damaged and can be seen on streetview here for your reference. maps.app.goo.gl/HXSWbG22naVhiY8Y9 Video was originally uploaded for insurance purposes, hence the sloppy *entire lack of* editing.
@@jacul3697 have seen many hgvs turn around at the main corner there (fork in the road). It is certainly not easy due to an unusual camber, low walls and generally unusual angles. Where this driver was trying to turn around is borderline impossible in a HGV as you can see!
@@tee_m That fork in the road offers a much wider area than the part where that fool was trying to turn. Obviously it is hard to tell from Google maps, but I would have pulled right into the road at the bottom right of the screen and tried to reverse 180 deg (round that kerb)into the road at the bottom left.
Further info: there's a new planning application to convert this building to two houses. publicaccess.rossendale.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=S31GXUNDK0E00&activeTab=summary
He should have knocked the door to ask for help in the form of a second pair of eyes And to pull further forward to start the manoeuvre, onto the kerb in the foreground We’ve all been in situations like this but youve just got to keep a cool head, get out and have a look
Surely most HGV drivers can sympathize with this driver..... We have all been caught in tricky situations,like this one just being one of the many examples!!..... sometimes timely delivery and returning the lorry undamaged seems like a gamble....
@@carthstarthat trailer was 40ft long and no not fair play to the guy he's an idiot who should have had more common sense than to turn round in such a small area, no doubt he's caused damage to the truck and trailer and also hit the house and just drove off that's not a professional HGV driver .
Totally relate to this, especially when I was a new driver. Got lost, no help from control, seen red and done something risky. Park up and take a minute, although it looks difficult without blocking the road. 😢😢
Only Way Out of that was to Reverse back out and do a Blind Reverse back over the Bridge and then Reverse onto the Roundabout, Drivers will Stop or Ask for Assistance.
Don't ever be afraid to ask for help. If you're in a spot like this and an extra pair of eyes would help get out safely then find them. Sure that may seem embarrasing but it's better than wrecking the truck or the street.
@@harrygamer4190 Sadly this is likely to be the case. And anyone who is willing to help will probably be as much use as a chocolate fire guard, these days.
As a class 1 driver myself I feel for you buddy who ever you are. Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and refuse a delivery or park up and walk it get a better look. Could have avoided a damaged house and nearly ripping the whole trailer off. Hope he’s still driving because he gave it a good attempt fair does 😂
He could have tried to back up onto that street. It's not even blindside turn, so, if there's enough space, he could do it. If there's no chance of doing that, then reversing back is the best option. Although, I don't know conditions of the road he would have reversing through
Don't judge the driver because we don't know if the he could reverse back without hindrance of other cars blockig him. I have also found myself in this kind of situation whereby it was the police that had to clear the way for me to reverse back because the car drivers in my back didn't want to. Sometimes, the so called Garmin map for truckers is misleading. In this kind of situation, i would advise that he should have called the police to help him control traffic so that he can reverse back even if he was given a ticket.
No assistance from the drivers in waiting cars. An extra pair of eyes would have made a big difference to the guy. If your capable of giving clear guidance instructions without getting excited yourself you should always try help someone out in this situation
At least he went back and knocked on the door, ready to be a man and admit his mistake. Many could learn from this. Hard to see if he leaves a note or not. Hopefully he reported this to the insurance, and the house owner was covered! Personally I think I would have taken another approach to turning around, without knowing more of those streets than we see here. I would have gone further up the road, and tried to back down right, along that house he hit. Not sure it would work better, I have never driven semi/artic, but that would most likely be my first thought.
This is where the maths come in. That was never going to happen without damage to the lorry and property. The driver needed to assess this and work it out before forcing the issue. The property behind the trailer could have suffered structural damage this company is now liable for. He could have damaged the stone building on the right and caused body to chassis mounts to be ripped away on the fridge trailer. In my opinion this driver is either inexperienced or just a very poor judge of space Vs size of vehicle. It also raises his ability to read the road to start with IE why did he keep going up a road without stopping and researching it. Like another driver said on here, get out and have a look. Ask for help. Reverse to safety. If you are considering driving CE artics you must drop ALL car driver rabbits and step up to the plate . Do not attempt this sort of follow the sat nav blindly BS shocking driving... This is a car driver in this truck who has somehow got a CE licence and should not be out on the roads without a mentor in the passenger seat.
Also, given the clear complexity of the maneuver, they might want to consider slowing things down a wee bit. There's some pretty aggressive throttle work at play here!
That was a hard one, Presuming that camera is on a wall I don't see why he did not come up closer to increase the the amount of room he had for the turn. I always found it easier to get out the cab and asses the situation before trying the manoeuvre. As we know some time their just is not enough room to complete a turn like that one.
@@ratreer1523Well, as I see it, he only hits once, when he gives it that extra nudge? Did I miss a point? But I would have gotten out and looked, long before that.
Stress, big vehicle and probably newbie behind wheel. GOAL, get out and look! If he foud way to get there, way back must be able (unless gate is closed behind him etc.), but sometimes much harder to do. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it.
Artic driver here in Ireland , That driver done his best in a bad situation and even had the decency to go back to the house he scraped, it happens ,the biggest vehicles on the road are more likely to have accidents. fact
The Driver panicked when he got into that situation he should have reversed out of the street but looking at his reversing in this video he is not very confident or know his angles as he was about to turn he should have realised that this road was unsuitable I have done this just wonder if this driver was following an ordinary sat nav and not a Truck one.
The worst part is the person who called this a fail and most that post these kinds of videos could never drive one of these and honestly I could feel this guy's pain watching this I was actually gutted for him
My observation was based on 40 yrs experience.Class 1.Fifteen of those on continent.I started when drivers helped each other.Not like the arsehxx I've seen in the last 10 years. Guessing you got 5 years under your belt
For those on here who've got the pedigree I go back to the good old days of the bomb boat out of Dover. The Pas de Calais.Was a frieghter free restaurant an no car drivers
Observation.Showed me reversing was only way out.Even if having to call police to assist.It was painful cos to attempt that turn was going to cause damage.Driver did not have the experience or confidence to reverse.Had to do it once in Austria 1 mile reverse on a mountain road.Strained my neck and it still gives me gib an that was in 1992.
He shouldn't have been sent in something that size, 7.5 tonne max for those streets. He tried to make contact with the householder to, presumably to do the right thing but the poor sod was doomed by his tansport manager before he even got into the wagon at the depot...
If he’d had just steered right instead of left he could of t boned it round and mounted the curb with enough clearance, but that takes many years of know how, we’ve all been there, I’ve taken many a bump and scrape learning, no trucker worth their weight hasn’t.
The top corner of the trailer hit the house pretty badly. Pushed in the brickwork and damaged the rendering substantially. Link to Google street view is here. maps.app.goo.gl/5CLGMMH4718VVLgQ7 insurance paid out.
Went the wrong way completely and was trying to turn around. There's a small industrial unit at the previous turning from the main road and this happens fairly often.
I uploaded this video for the purpose of the homeowners insurance (the house was damaged) and not for entertainment or to 'laugh at him'. I was not present during the incident, and later viewed it on CCTV but would certainly have rushed to help if I was, after seeing how it began to unfold. There is a significant gradient there and it's likely that was a contributing factor that's hard to see on the video.
We're there no humans happy ro help??? All siting behind curtain and watching? Plenty of space, just needs lost of shunting . Once in yard and stuck, I had to reverse over tram track and sunoly asked 2 bored police men to help . They were not brilliant , but netter than nothing😅
Unfortunately not. I wasn't there (this is CCTV footage) and nobody else was on site. The house has been left empty for some time and was empty when this happened.
Yeah that's right, past my HGV1 test in the Army, then in city street, worked as a day/ night HGV shunter for TNT for 7 years, move on to containers HGV 1 for 6 years, then move HGV1 general haulage for 7 years & ended up driving heavy haulage up to 150 tons,,, for Ballwin cranes,,,, Yeah you're right am also not bad driving a car & motorbike,,,, what about you, you the one trying to drive that truck in the video??? @@user-mn5ov4si1o
You have some man or women in the traffic office sending you out on jobs without a clue .to the environment you're going to encounter .all they are interested in are if your fail your timed deliverys
Just painful to watch, I think most of have been on the way to that at some point thinking am I going to get out of here that's when the heart starts beating very fast then the dry mouth.
An 11 minute video, showing about two minutes of relevant content. Still not sure why the driver drove in, reversed out, and then drove in again to atempt that u-turn. Still, you got another page click, so thats a result.
To be clear, this was uploaded for the purposes of the house insurance (in particular the estate agent as the house was for sale at the time). I didn't upload this for 'views' and the video is not monetised. A few local people asked to see what happened so I made it public. I didn't put *any* effort into the editing. The video is this long because the CCTV records in 10 min clips and overlapped to the second one so that's why it starts when it does and ends when it does. There's a mention of when stuffs happening at timestamps in the description.
