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Mother and daughter ‘ from death’ in bridge


3 m&m t bv Robbie Robinson


A WOMAN and her daughter missed death by seconds when a skip-lorry collided with the


railway bridge a t Langho, a R ib b le Valley co u n c illo r


claimed, this week.


ington) has described how the PP t ing after picking up a crash a t the bridge crossing was ^turning


Coun. Graham Sowter (Bill- - ° (Hi


Whalley Road could have beep fatal if it had occurred seconds earlier. He said: "A'woman and


ivp bridge and another child was cnuo


under the bridge when going in the ____jiwnofinn Tf. w3s while he


“ direction. It was while he


was returning aitei & skip that he struck the bridge. Coun. Sowter said that he was


her child had just walked under th,e h ida


wondered u m “ “


aware that the driver had blamed repeated resurfacing of the road as the cause of the accident, hut he wondered if the skip lift arms had


showered with dust, they were so close. They were possibly 15 to /u


.« parish cou cil


seconds from death." He said th a t as the bridge is


angled the lorry toppled right across the road and shed its empty skip, rather than just becoming


people."


j“ ydriver Mr Stuart Wallace had already driven his vehicle


action this day.”


Langho Parish Council and vice- chairman of Ribble Valley Rail, wrote to Lancashire County Coun­


Mr Brian Haworth, chairman of .


Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, July 26th, 2001 13


— nnwioVi oAiinpil meetings at which the issue of bridge safety had been discussed, as there had been four serious accidents at the bridge in the last four months. "I think the seriousness hasn't got through to


some kind of device on the approach road to warn the driver of


He said it must he possible to fit ••• , ...


a high vehicle. He suggested a mechanical trip which would set oil a klaxon and flashing lights, or some sort of electronic beam sens­ ing device to operate the same warnings. He added: "We want


cil and Railtrack after the last acci­ dent demanding the fitting of improved safety features like those


described by Coun. Sowter.


He said that the county council had told him all appropriate sig-


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nage was in place and that it was not a particularly-had bridge in terms of accidents. Railtrack responded by saying that the bridge had been there a long time | and that it was the responsibility of lorry drivers to be aware of the signs and the heights of their vehi-1


cles. Mr Haworth said: "We have 1


repeated our requests with a bit more venom. There is a school on | both sides of the bridge and this accident was a bad one in many


ways." 7r:V';: A I&3


lad dental and health leeks and returned home lith bulging suitcases con- pining many items, includ­ ing new clothing, donated


ly residents. Pictured are the children


nth the ice dancing stars.


Off to a very different beat


on Bermuda


A V ILLA G E police m a n is swopping th e showers of Sab den for the beaches of Bermu­


da. RpIPlliF''


Worswick (pictured) is join­ ing the Bermuda national police force as a trainer after more than three years as the local policeman at Babden, which he helped to become one of the first vil­ lages in Lancashire to get


Clitheroe lad PC Paul


CCTV.He will be training new recruits in the tropical par­


adise after qualifying as a trainer in this country. The former Royal


tete, he was a devotee of


Jdog trials. ■ leaves a son, Mr David


Ird, and two grandchildren. Ifuneral is at Skipton Cre- lium tomorrow, followed by Tnorial service at Holden til at 12-30 p.m.


Bermuda arose and I have a friend out there, so I applied. I got the job and it's just a change of scenery


for three years." The trip to Bermuda is a


career gap, and PC Wor­ swick has been told that the door is open for him to return to the Lancashire Constabulary when he comes back.


Marine commando, said: "The opportunity to go to


post has been advertised and a Blackburn police spokesman said that, if the position is not filled by the time PC Worswick leaves on August 10th, the village will be policed from the Whalley unit until a resi­ dent replacement has been


The village constable s , found. Invitation to Rotary summer party annual summer party. There are 250 places for the event at StirK h o u s , , House Gis- residents in fear for their lives by Tim Procter


RESIDENTS of Wha- Hey Old Road linking B illin g to n w i th York Village and Blackburn fear for th e i r sa fe ty


daily.They also , face long delays when, vehicles get stuck on the alpine-style double hairpin bend at the bottom - as happened again


on Thursday. Closely-set speed humps


have made the picturesque Painter Wood stretch just above the bends safer - but


hazards remain. Accidents happen regu­


larly, and court action has started following the death of a young man from Whal- : ley further up the road. - A tribute to him, with a


picture and flowers, still- remains near the crash scene, though far enough into the hedgerow not to


distract drivers. "We do believe that more


should he done to make the road safer. Stopping big lor­ ries coming down would he very easy — better signs are


getting jammed on the bend could easily be avoid­


needed and they would not cost much," says long­ standing Painter Wood resi­


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