THE CITY CENTER SHOPPING DISTRICT IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, has hydraulic bollards in the surrounding streets that rise up every morning at 11:00 and effectively keep motor vehicles out of the busy shopping streets.
Police cars, fire engines, taxis and buses have electronic devices that lower the bollards so that they can gain entrance to the area. But the electronics failed Monday morning when a fire engine was passing over the lowered barrier while entering on a routine pre-plan inspection. While the fire truck was moving along, the bollards started rising up and literally lifted the fire engine up in the air.
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Manchester Evening News
One of the bollards split the transmission casing and trans. oil started running out onto the street. The bollards were hopelessly bent by the collision and the only way to remove the fire engine was by having a tow truck lift it off the posts.
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The Manchester Evening News has the STORY and VIDEO report.
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