Tipper truck!

Sep 11 2008 By Andrew Hirst

Lorry 320

A HUGE skip lorry was left perched on a wall after a bizarre accident in Newsome.

Its load tumbled into the garden of a disabled man – and amazingly he then discovered he was related to a member of the lorry’s crew!

Joe Blair, who lives at Ing Lane in Newsome, had not seen his cousin, demolition machine driver Andrew Dobson, for 10 years.

The lorry from Bradford- based Demo UK had been sent to Newsome Mills, off Hart Street, to pick up a big load of roofing felt that had been dumped at the site now cleared for a residential development.

But as the skip was being loaded, one of the metal runners on the lorry buckled and gave way and that – added to the road’s camber – sent the 32-tonne Daf lorry slowly toppling over.

Click here to see a video of the lorry and interview with Mr Blair.