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[CLKD]

After a lorry hit a bridge which collapsed onto a lorry …….. this is the main route to Dover 

[Joyce]

I'm surprised more bridges don't get hit. When we were driving south & back home recently we saw many large lorries which only just managed under bridges.

[CLKD]

He hit the bridge because he was travelling on the hard shoulder, apparently on some UK motorways this is now allowed 

[Ju Ju]

Did the bridge fall on the same lorry or another one? Must have been a tremendous collision and a weakness in the bridge.

We get regular collisions with the walls of a narrow bridge near here. It's over a river and a sharp bend and with a junction to our village. Usually at night, so alcoholic influence probably helps, though years back a police car landed in the river. Car chase? Happens so often that it doesn't get reported in the local news.

[Taz2]

It was a digger on the back of a lorry that carved into the bridge bringing a section down onto that and also a lorry travelling in the centre lane.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Why was he driving in the hard shoulder though, he would have missed the bridge support otherwise 

No chance of avoiding something that happened that quickly!   The Police are reported as calling it a 'major' incident, well that's anything where more than 20 people are involved: in this instance, only 5  . A Major Incident is where all hands are called in, Doctors, Police etc. are called in from days off/holidays ……. beds are emptied ……..