Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Car-nage in Tonbridge....


This was the sorry scene that greeted me when I arrived at Mr. Books this morning. Twisted traffic lights, sand and debris strung right across the road near the Chequers Inn. Highways lorries and workmen clearing up the mess, police tape cordoning off the road, several police cars and an ambulance. Was this the Pedestrianise Tonbridge group taking direct action? I thought to myself for a brief moment! If so it was a pretty effective way of clearing the cars, buses and lorries from the centre of Tonbridge. Trouble though is that it was a scarey reminder of how quiet it would be without the vehicular traffic as it you could hear a paper bag blowing down the street. In fact is was almost as silent as the West End of London during the Olympics!
Apparently though it had nothing at all to do with Tonbridge activists and everything to do with someone careering off the road and into said traffic lights at around 2-30 this morning. The road is still closed off at the time of writing; so that's a heck of a long time to clear up some mess. I don't know whether or not anyone was hurt in the incident but an ambulance did arrive a few minutes ago. Come to think about it that's a bit of a delayed reaction if it happened in the early hours! Hope all is okay and that I'm not being too flippant if it was more serious than a traffic light being demolished....

1 comment:

Paul Bailey said...

Looks a right mess! Won't comment further as don't know the full facts of what happened. No doubt the "Courier" will enlighten us on Friday?