Police have gotten themselves into one other embarrassing predicament on the newly opened Transmission Gully motorway.
On Saturday morning, a patrol automotive might be seen caught on a metallic bollard with its rear finish hanging within the air – the pole apparently having grow to be wedged beneath because the automobile reversed into it.
Dan Barker’s daughter, Dililah, 12, captured the sight on his cellphone’s digicam on a sightseeing journey to part of the street the place one other police automobile got here to grief final month.
“We had been going to see the gravel pit the place the police acquired caught final time.
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“I believed it was hilarious – they will need to have been doing a hell of a velocity to stand up on it.”
On the day Transmission Gully opened, a police automotive grew to become stranded in a gravel arrestor pit used to decelerate runaway automobiles on a steep part of the street.
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Police automotive runs into the gravel arrestor pit on Transmission Gull on the primary day it opens.
A police spokeswoman mentioned nobody was damage within the newest incident, and a tow truck was known as to help the stricken automotive.