Where not to drive a vehicle transporter ...

At around 9.30 am this morning - Easter Sunday - someone attempted to drive an extremely long  articulated vehicle transporter, the sort of machine big enough to carry a main battle tank or a large earth-mover, through residential streets in the Calder Valley area of Whitehaven.

It will not have been a surprise to any resident of that area of Whitehaven that it got trapped.

Murphy's law ensured that it became trapped in Esk Avenue, completely blocking the road at the very pinch point where anyone trying to get to or from large areas of Corkickle or Mirehouse East by car would have to take detours of several miles to get round it. My Easter Sunday journey to church  involved a detour of close to four miles.

By the standard of some of the other news today this is a "first world problem."

However, if anyone reading this should ever consider taking a vehicle larger than a bus or a seven-ton removal van through roads like Foxhouses Road, Esk Avenue or Calder Avenue in any circumstances other than an extreme emergency, I have one word of advice for you, in the interests of both yourself and everyone in the area.

Don't.

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