Carlyon road accident

[Madhatter]

At mid day on Wednesday June the 23rd there was an accident on Carlyon Road that closed it off for over 12 hours whilst four 1000 litre containers were removed and the 1000 litres of emulsion that spilled onto the road was cleaned up.
A lorry going delivering to 3M came off Atherstone Bypass and turned around the sharp corner into Carlyon Road. This caused the poorly secured pallets that the containers were on to slide over the side and burst through the side curtain, hitting the road and rupturing.
Cars driving through the leaking Diamite salt water solution and white emulsion made the clean up operation more difficult County Council staff said, as it spread it a considerable distance into Carlyon Road.
Four fire engines, a fire truck and a fire car attended the scene and holding area was later set up at the Bull Public House Car Park.
One container was up righted before fire crews attended, fire crew put on breathing apparatus to right the leaking emulsion container and seal the other two containers before county Council arranged for Veolia from Hinckley to remove them. However this took until about 8 pm by which time the emulsion had set and therefore required specialist removal equipment so the 'the beast' a high power aqua surfacing road sweeper was called in from Burntwood. The machine with a minimum call out fee of £5000 cleans the road with a oscillating jet wash and cleaner attachment on the front and is used to remove white lines on motorways. A high power jet wash truck also joined in the operation which took until after midnight.

[Madhatter]

I am amazed at how long this took, how much it cost, how many people were involved and the incompetence of the services that attended.
Not only that, the information given to the herald wasn't accurate.
The chemicals were NOT hazardous, me and the driver up righted one of the Diamite containers before the fire services got there. They stood around finding out what it was, even walking through it , whilst the other containers levelled out to the ruptures before sealing the drains.Most of the contents of the 1000 litre Diamite container had already gone down the drain and most of the 1000 litres of the ruptured Emulsion had already gone down the drain or spread over the road. Eventually they righted ONE them wearing breathing apparatus despite them being non hazardous. Fire crews then sat about all afternoon. Some set up an unnecessary holding area on the Bull Car park. County Council were notified at 2.30 ish, arrived at half four. Decided how they were going to get the containers removed and contacted the waste company that didnt turn up till gone half seven. They then took the containers and the County Council started its clean up operation which had changed from spreading sand on the road using a gritter lorry and road sweeping it up to hiring a aqua surfacing truck at £8000 and a high power jet wash.
Vehicles attending were 4 fire engines (£160 per unit per hour I was told), 1 fire truck, 1 fire car, 1 county council car, 1 environment agency car, 1 County Council pick up crew cab, 1 County Council gritter truck, 1 County Council road sweeper, 1 transit van with jet wash water supplies, 1 transit van from Veolia, 1 truck pulling the jet wash trailer, 1 aqua surface treating road sweeper, and removal vehicle(s) from Veolia that took the containers away.
The driver was sat there at the side of the road in full sun, banned from going into his truck, all day from 12 till about 9. All of the services went for food and apart from the fire service no one offered him food or refreshment until I gave him a lift to the chip shop at half 7.
All that lot cost about £30,000 when all they needed to do was close the road, get a fire crew to seal and up right the containers and seal the drains, then put the grit down, road sweeper it up and get the hand jet wash to get the dried on stuff off. The road should have been open in 4 hours max.
Veolia took so long because they wasn't contacted until evening. everyone went early to watch the football.
The road was closed for over 12 HOURS.
No diversion set up and the only explainable way around at least to foreign truck drivers was through St Georges road housing estate.