{"id":5716,"date":"2012-01-04T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2012-01-04T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:24:17","slug":"bam-skip-lorry-smashes-into-rail-bridge-on-barrington-road-brixton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bam-skip-lorry-smashes-into-rail-bridge-on-barrington-road-brixton\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam! Skip lorry smashes into rail bridge on Barrington Road, Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barrington-road-lorry-hits-bridge-03.jpg\" alt=\"Bam! Skip lorry smashes into rail bridge on Barrington Road, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s currently delays all round thanks to this skip driver bashing his load of empty skips into the rail bridge at Barrington Road, near Coldharbour Lane,\u00a0Brixton\u00a0Sw9.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barrington-road-lorry-hits-bridge-02.jpg\" alt=\"Bam! Skip lorry smashes into rail bridge on Barrington Road, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lorry bashed into the bridge deep in the rush hour &#8211; around 5pm &#8211; and the road was still blocked over an hour later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/barrington-road-lorry-hits-bridge-04.jpg\" alt=\"Bam! Skip lorry smashes into rail bridge on Barrington Road, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fire brigade had to let down the air from the lorry&#8217;s tyres so that it could be moved away from the scene.\u00a0Thankfully, the bridge only appears to have suffered minor superficial damage .<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that rare for\u00a0lorries\u00a0to crash into bridges around Brixton &#8211; I captured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/coldharbour-bridge-crash.html\" target=\"_blank\">this scene on Coldharbour Lane<\/a> back in 2007, and only two weeks later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/wrong-turn-bus.html\" target=\"_blank\">a bus managed to crash into a house<\/a> on the same road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s currently delays all round thanks to this skip driver bashing his load of empty skips into the rail bridge at Barrington Road, near Coldharbour Lane,\u00a0Brixton\u00a0Sw9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/barrington-road-lorry-hits-bridge-03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1uc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}