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CyrilEbokiPoh
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by CyrilEbokiPoh » Mon Jul 14, 2025 9:55 am
If anyone’s heading into town I’d avoid unless essential. Driving into town this morning and adhoc road closure signs up all over causing carnage, meaning cars are having to do dangerous u turns by Tesco as you get through and then it’s closed at the lights at the new junction ( where you used to be able to go right and now can’t). Then bypassing this by going via town all parliament street is the same. The police manning the road don’t have a clue what’s going on just said it’s been several hours and they’ve just been told to direct traffic.
Apparently a wagons drove into the flyover. But no sign of that anywhere.
If you need to head to town I’d just go down one of the other towns that are undoubtedly closed for roadworks.

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ClaretsPadiham
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by ClaretsPadiham » Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:10 am
Seen it this morning, Tesco wagon gone into the bridge under Centenary Way (next to bowling).
Waiting for structural engineers to see if there is any damage to the bridge before it can re-open.
If that bridge was closed for any sustained amount of time Burnley would be chaos, especially on a match day.
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bobinho
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by bobinho » Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:53 am
As per Padihams post - bridge strike this morning.
Any single road closure into and out of Burnley at ANY time causes absolute chaos.
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CyrilEbokiPoh
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by CyrilEbokiPoh » Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:47 am
Was crackers this morning.
I can’t imagine it’s structurally damaged the bridge. But maybe il avoid going over or under it for a while.

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Vintage Claret
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by Vintage Claret » Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:04 pm
We were planning to head into town shortly, is it still as bad?
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by Vintage Claret » Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:37 pm
To answer my own question , just been to Tesco's as centenary way re-open, traffic back to normal around town centre.
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dougcollins
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by dougcollins » Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:08 pm
bobinho wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:53 am
As per Padihams post - bridge strike this morning.
Any single road closure into and out of Burnley at ANY time causes absolute chaos.
Terrorists don't need a bomb, just dig a hole.
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Chester Perry
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by Chester Perry » Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:13 pm
dougcollins wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:08 pm
Terrorists don't need a bomb, just dig a hole.
to be honest the whole country could be brought to standstill by a hack into a lot of modern cars
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ClaretPete001
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by ClaretPete001 » Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:18 pm
Padiham has been shut down because the horse from the horse and cart needs re-shoeing.
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by dougcollins » Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:33 pm
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:13 pm
to be honest the whole country could be brought to standstill by a hack into a lot of modern cars
Hope you got the film rights for that Mr Perry!