Village comedy of errors as two trucks feel the squeeze
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II A delivery of building supplies to a Cotswold village turned into a comedy of errors last week
when a delivery truck got stuck in a narrow lane shortly foliowed by the recovery vehicle sent to its rescue.
The chaos in Brinscombe, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, took 28 hours to clear and left several stretches of Cotswold stone wall demolished, a telegraph pole and a historic letterbox badly damaged, and a listed building with roof tiles dislodged, cast iron guttering smashed and wall stones disrupted.
The driver of Giesbased builders mar
chants Grahams phoned for help after his 7.5-tonne flatbed truck became wedged between two walls. Staverton Commercial sent a large recovery vehicle which one villager described as "a huge thing— much too big for these lanes.
When efforts to winch the truck ended with both vehicles trapped, a second recovery truck from Longhope-based Richard Read Transport arrived to take over.
Jason Smith of Grahams says: "There are no signs or weight restrictions along these roads and there ought to be because they are just not suitable for lorries this size."