[News] Crash on A23 bottom of Handcross Hill

Munkfish · May 28, 2019

If anyone is travelling North on the A23 tonight i’d try and find a different route.

Just gone passed traffic back to Bolney nothing moving.

TomandJerry · May 28, 2019

Driven past it coming from the other way... looks nasty... I hope whoever was driving the car is okay, looked in a bad way.

Cowfold Seagull · May 28, 2019

Munkfish said:
If anyone is travelling North on the A23 tonight i’d try and find a different route.

Just gone passed traffic back to Bolney nothing moving.

If nothing is moving how can youi have driven past it? Doesn't make sense.

golddene · May 28, 2019

Cowfold Seagull said:
If nothing is moving how can youi have driven past it? Doesn't make sense.

Makes perfect sense if you are travelling north to south and the incident is on the south to north carriageway ?

Mr Putdown · May 28, 2019

Cowfold Seagull said:
If nothing is moving how can youi have driven past it? Doesn't make sense.

It’s dual carriageway at that point isn’t it?

Munkfish · May 28, 2019

Cowfold Seagull said:
If nothing is moving how can youi have driven past it? Doesn't make sense.

Not sure if you are familiar with how the A23 works but it has a road going southbound parallel to the road going North.

Cowfold Seagull · May 28, 2019

Munkfish said:
Not sure if you are familiar with how the A23 works but it has a road going southbound parallel to the road going North.

Well two things. I wasn't aware that you were travelling in the opposite direction, and most importantly, it was said tongue in cheek. Oh and yes l am familiar with it, l live nearby.

Weststander · May 28, 2019

The AA and Argus have and are still reporting that the A23 is closed, implying both ways.

True?

Munkfish · May 28, 2019

Weststander said:
The AA and Argus have and are still reporting that the A23 is closed, implying both ways.

True?

It wasn't when I was heading Southbound. But this might be the case now.

Munkfish · May 28, 2019

Cowfold Seagull said:
Well two things. I wasn't aware that you were travelling in the opposite direction, and most importantly, it was said tongue in cheek. Oh and yes l am familiar with it, l live nearby.

In that case just admit you had a brain fart.

Leighgull · May 28, 2019

Handcross Hill. Always been cursed. A Charabanc crashed there (1920s I think) killing lots of folks. When I was a rep I used to use it a lot...seems a bit of an accident magnet.

Weststander · May 28, 2019

Leighgull said:
Handcross Hill. Always been cursed. A Charabanc crashed there (1920s I think) killing lots of folks. When I was a rep I used to use it a lot...seems a bit of an accident magnet.

Southbound very true. Is it the same on the inclined northbound?

Chicken Run · May 28, 2019

Munkfish said:
In that case just admit you had a brain fart.

Did you just waltz in here and bark at your commanding officer? If so, I regard that as a bonafide brain fart. And I resent it when people fart inside my office.

m20gull · May 28, 2019

Leighgull said:
Handcross Hill. Always been cursed. A Charabanc crashed there (1920s I think) killing lots of folks. When I was a rep I used to use it a lot...seems a bit of an accident magnet.

https://www.gravelroots.net/history/251.html it’s part of local history here in Orpington. 10 deaths in 1906. Note from the link that there are postcards of the crashed bus!

Sussex Nomad · May 28, 2019

m20gull said:
https://www.gravelroots.net/history/251.html it’s part of local history here in Orpington. 10 deaths in 1906. Note from the link that there are postcards of the crashed bus!

Scary automobiles back then, fold up like a pack of cards!

drew · May 28, 2019

Sussex Nomad said:
Scary automobiles back then, fold up like a pack of cards!

Didn't help that the bus was top heavy with imbibing fireman plus the driver seems to have had a few as well!!!!

m20gull · May 28, 2019

drew said:
Didn't help that the bus was top heavy with imbibing fireman plus the driver seems to have had a few as well!!!!

I think the inquest established he only had a couple of light beers but the mechanicals, especially the gearbox, got the blame.

Sussex Nomad · May 28, 2019

drew said:
Didn't help that the bus was top heavy with imbibing fireman plus the driver seems to have had a few as well!!!!

Could you imagine being in that and it turns turtle? Absolute coffin carriage.

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