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This morning I was on my way to Almeria airport on the E.15 motorway and came across red bordered yellow warning triangles showing a car on it's side. Eventually traffic slowed and we encountered some large cranes lifting an artic out of the centre reservation, it was on it's side, no doubt hit by the high winds we get here on occasions.

Seeing an HGV on it's side happens probably 2 or 3 times a year but I have never seen that road sign before, has anyone seen it in the UK? FWIW when I was in the UK over Xmas I picked up a copy of the latest highway code and it is not shown in there, something like this would surely be an international sign?

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Dave
 
Could it be a sign used solely by the police? The police over here use signs that aren't in the highway code but which are self explanatory.
 
Notwithstanding TP's valid comment, after reading this, I had a little Google, and found this.

The opening paragraph seems to sum it up, not much standardization, it seems.

Despite an apparent uniformity and standardisation, European traffic signs present relevant differences between countries. However most European countries refer to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals — adopted in Europe by Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey[SUP][1][/SUP]and Ukraine.

The convention has not been adopted in Ireland, Moldova, Spain, and the UK.

 
Poland accident ahead

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Third attempt at a reply :pray:

That's the one Shayne and as per Clive's post 'Poland' is in the list so that sorts that, and I can appreciate different countries with their own signage, I can understand no 'beware of kangaroo's' signs here for example :icon-biggrin:

Here the police normally use the '!' exclamation sign for an accident followed by a chicane made from a few cones and then you come across the accident. Perhaps this sign will be adopted in the future?

FWIW the police here can lay out the cones 10 or 15 metres apart and no one dare weave between them, this saves laying out hundreds with no gap as per the (IMO) over zealous highways agency in the UK. The police closed just the one lane whilst the truck was righted, no full motorway closures for a tyre change :clap:

Thanks all

regards

Dave
 
I would guess the yellow triangle is the warning and the picture within could be anything as an advisory note ? I'm sure i've seen one with ducks on it somewhere , i assumed they must ambush unsuspecting drivers on a regular basis and so earned the sign :lol:

As this thread is answered and there's no chance of a jack as far as i can tell the only way to prevent windows 10 from installing without permission is to turn off updates which is why i did it . And while i was at it i went to add/remove programs which has "turn windows features on/off" in top left corner , and turned off everything i could as an experiment . The result was no change other than less problems and slightly altered text while typing on here , just looks a little more basic is all . Some features can't be turned off without losing connection but it will warn you when you untick the box so put the tick back . If Crispin's been at it you have probably done all this and much more besides but it might help somebody .
 
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If I saw it in Wales I'd think it was "extreme side slope"

If I saw it in Aus I'd assume it was a reminder to stow the weight of your beer order evenly :laughing-rolling:
 
Dave 2000 said:
Third attempt at a reply :pray:

That's the one Shayne and as per Clive's post 'Poland' is in the list so that sorts that, and I can appreciate different countries with their own signage, I can understand no 'beware of kangaroo's' signs here for example :icon-biggrin:

Here the police normally use the '!' exclamation sign for an accident followed by a chicane made from a few cones and then you come across the accident. Perhaps this sign will be adopted in the future?


Dave
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Ah ha! No signs but there are Wallabies around here - a couple got out from a private zoo when the big storm hit in 2000. Wifey & I have seen one, and my neighbours son saw one too!
 
Thanks for that Shayne and I appreciate your comments. FWIW I have been around PC's for many years, and taught at college level in the IT department at an Essex college, I have also done some freelance work for a London University, so this is not a simple one click fix all problem. I had spent hours on it, I gave up and did not post for awhile, then came back and similar problems exist. I turned over control to Crispin one evening and after making a couple of changes at 'his' end the problems eased. The main issue is when the 'save' button is 'pressed'. The page will either just sit there and do nothing or will freeze and I can only get out by refreshing, then my post disappears.

Sometimes I have tried typing in 'Word' and then pasting it over but then the text is large, by the time I have altered the text and pressed send we are at the stage of a 60/40 chance of it working. If this problem showed on just one of my machines or on other sites then I would be prepared to put more time into it but alas, it happens on both of my machine's. my partners machine, and only on LC net. One of my machines a (WIN 7 Panasonic Toughbook) had just been rebuilt and the only site visited was LC net and the same problems. The Panasonic is normally used just for work, I got hold of a new VAIO last Xmas and exactly the same problems.

Crispin thinks it may be the Spanish adverts when they pick up the IP address, this was turned off and did help and perhaps reduced problems by around 10/15%? My chances of a post making it to the forum increased to 6 out of 10, but they reduce to about 2 in 10 if it has to be edited. Similar if I am trying to follow a thread and wish to use the quote function, the result is after going back over the thread/retyping and so on I have lost the plot and give up. I had thought of copying the post before I send it but sometimes I simply forget.

Having read others having problems and even yourself having to make modifications to your own machine (you are in the UK right?) leads me to believe this is not an isolated incident.

Regards

Dave
 
Shayne said:
As this thread is answered and there's no chance of a jack as far as i can tell the only way to prevent windows 10 from installing without permission is to turn off updates which is why i did it . And while i was at it i went to add/remove programs which has "turn windows features on/off" in top left corner , and turned off everything i could as an experiment . The result was no change other than less problems and slightly altered text while typing on here , just looks a little more basic is all . Some features can't be turned off without losing connection but it will warn you when you untick the box so put the tick back . If Crispin's been at it you have probably done all this and much more besides but it might help somebody .
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Good tip Shayne, I've disabled a few things I don't think I need. :thumbup:
 
Dave 2000 said:
FWIW the police here can lay out the cones 10 or 15 metres apart and no one dare weave between them, this saves laying out hundreds with no gap as per the (IMO) over zealous highways agency in the UK. The police closed just the one lane whilst the truck was righted, no full motorway closures for a tyre change :clap:

Thanks all

regards

Dave
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We can squarely blame that in the UK on so called "Health & Safety Professionals" not the law but the idiots companies employee to interpret it
 
could try accessing the site through a proxy to eliminate routing related advert issues?

This site doesn't like being zoomed in too much, formatting gets overlayed, you guys with issues arn;t zoomed right in are you?

Just a guess, you never know!
 
I had exactly the same issue with this site at least a year ago and probably more , the auto save feature would hang , if i refreshed i lost everything , occasionally i posted in duplicate . After a time i got used to waiting for "saved" to appear before attempting to post , sometimes that worked and sometimes it didn't . Unfortunately i cannot remember how i cured it :think:

I first laid hands on a computer about 10 years ago simply because kids kept breaking it and the mrs thinks i can fix anything :? so the cure cannot be complicated . Possibly i swapped from firefox to google chrome and installed google adblock . Disabled features as above , switched off apps and accelerators attached to my browser . Wish i could be more specific but i just don't remember so these are just processes i know i have done .
 
did it before i went to Romania, we pull it back over with minor damage

i wonder if a LC would be ok after a small roll over?
 
I saw this on the overhead gantry lights the other day on the motorway !!! ONCOMING CAR !!!

The motorway was empty so I drove slowly in the middle lane. The police had already got him onto the hard shoulder still facing the wrong way.
 
Cone spacing - don't agree about overzealous H&S types.......I've coned off lanes on many occasions and then watched numpties squeeze between the cones, or get out and move them, or just drive over them! And then they got to me, with the standard 'Oh, is the road closed officer?' Its very hard to not be sarcastic, when you are stood in front of a car wrapped around another car, completely blocking the road!

On one occasion my BMW estate, fully marked, blue lights on, 30 cones stretching back 200m, reduced to the length of a Smart car by a driver who cut through the cones in order to get to the (blocked) exit lane,

Some people should be made to wear cones around themselves permanently to safeguard the rest of us :)
 
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