Unidentified lorry shunted my car on Fellbrigg Rd

[AdrianB]

A neighbour in Fellbrigg Rd tells me he saw an extra-long lorry back into my car at around 5am on either Wednesday 8th March or Thursday 9th. All he noticed was that the lorry might have been from a plasterboard supplier (heading for the Bawdale Rd builders' merchants? Who knows...) and may have been blue. My car is damaged and I'd like to trace the owner of the lorry - did anyone else in the area see this lorry having difficulty making a turn at the junction of Fellbrigg and Bawdale? Neighbour says the lorry driver got out to check whether he'd bashed the car, but didn't leave a note - despite the fact that he obviously knew what damage he'd done.

[Jennys]

Won't the local builders merchants have a record of deliveries? 5am sounds too early for a delivery though. Hope you trace the culprit.

[AdrianB]

Thanks - you may be right, perhaps at that hour it wasn't on its way to make a delivery, but I think I'll talk to the builders yard just in case.

[mancity68]

We've had builders merchants delivering at 5 on our road, so not impossible. Bloody noisy!

[KidKruger]

Perhaps look at the the houses with obvious works currebtly going on near that junction and see if they had such deliveries that morning and who by.

I don't see why a large lorry would be off the beaten track like that for a reason.

I bet with an hour of pacing around you can build a map of all such sites.

A polite enquiry as to whether there's tradesmen on site who know how to fix plasterboarding and have they done it on that job (and when) - as if you were a potential customer / client - may help.

They presumably won't be aware of the collision so won't have anything to hide in that respect.

Follow-on with who do you get plasterboard from (which merchants), when was last time you used them. There's a good chance you can nail this. Once you know the supplier you can check who was delivering to that site that morning.

[nxjen]

Fellbrigg Road is used as a cut through for many large lorries who aren't delivering close by. I believe Melbourne Grove is given as a route on some Satnavs and perhaps it's the same for Fellbrigg. It surprises me that there isn't more damage to parked cars.

[Sue]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Fellbrigg Road is used as a cut through for many

> large lorries who aren't delivering close by. I

> believe Melbourne Grove is given as a route on

> some Satnavs and perhaps it's the same for

> Fellbrigg. It surprises me that there isn't more

> damage to parked cars.

Cut through to where though?

[AdrianB]

Thanks KidKruger!

[kford]

Sue Wrote:

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> nxjen Wrote:

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> > Fellbrigg Road is used as a cut through for

> many

> > large lorries who aren't delivering close by.

> I

> > believe Melbourne Grove is given as a route on

> > some Satnavs and perhaps it's the same for

> > Fellbrigg. It surprises me that there isn't

> more

> > damage to parked cars.

>

>

> Cut through to where though?

A 'fastest route' option by-passing congested LL/GV north.

[Penguin68]

Actually, I think it's a fastest route based on simple geography - it's shorter as the crow flies - you would need an application like Waze to determine traffic hold-ups. The Melbourne Grove route is suggested by sat navs even in the middle of the night, when LL is hardly congested.

[kford]

Most Garmin/TomToms have the 'live' option, like Waze and Google Maps.