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| + | ==== Burrington Coombe. Thu 11th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
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| + | Lawrence | ||
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| + | It is sometimes easy to forget how lucky I am to have the Mendips on my doorstep and to treat it's gorges as nothing more than roads with bends in them that get me to where I want to be. | ||
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| + | I thought I would share an unusual period in Burrington Coombe that perhaps goes to show that others also just use it as a road, or possibly race track. | ||
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| + | On Thursday 11/10 I was working for Charterhouse outdoor centre doing morning and afternoon trips gorge walking in the East Twin valley. After a successful morning trip I loaded the kids into the minibus and drove down the Coombe to turn round and head back to the centre for lunch, however, rounding the bend at the West Twin valley we came across a car on its roof with a paramedic just arriving on scene, the young lady that was driving was out of the car and fine so we headed back. | ||
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| + | After lunch I drove back to Burrington but was confronted by lorries reversing back up the Coombe and drivers flagging me down to say that there had been an accident and the road was closed, assuming that it was just the recovery of the mornings crashed car I carried on as I would be parking before I got to the closure, however when I got to the sharp left handler with the matrix sign I saw that it was a head on collision between a lorry and transit van (not much left of the van) not wishing to have the kids walk past the gory scene I went back to the Burrington Hams car park and took them for a walk instead. | ||
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| + | Saturday morning saw me doing a morning Goatchurch trip for some scouts. To my surprise there was a car on its roof resting on the bottom of the Rock of Ages. | ||
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| + | Sunday and a morning down Goatchurch then afternoon down Swildons, amazingly no upside down cars at all! It was too good to last as Andy Sparrow came out of Goatchurch in the afternoon to find a car on its roof at the bottom of the West Twin valley. | ||
| + | So in summary a 400yard stretch of road had seen at least 4 separate accidents in 4 days writing off 5 vehicles and who knows what injuries. | ||
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| + | It's Autumn so the roads are wet and have leaves on them, but nothing out of the ordinary or one would think dangerous? | ||
| + | I'll continue to use the gorge roads and remind myself how lucky I am to be able to use them as part of my " | ||
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| + | -- Lawrence | ||
| ==== Shute Shelve Cavern Mon 15th Oct 2018 ==== | ==== Shute Shelve Cavern Mon 15th Oct 2018 ==== | ||
