SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1988
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OVERHEIGHT LOADS POSE HAZARD
OPERATORS AND DRIVERS OF GOODS REMINDED THAT THE MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS.
OVERHEIGHT
VEHICLES WERE
LOADS CAN BE
TODAY (SUNDAY) POTENTIALLY
SPOKESMAN
THE SAID
OVERHEIGHT LOADS GANTRY
A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO OVERHEAD STRUCTURES SUCH AS FOOTBRIDGES, SIONS AND TROLLEY WIRES. ACCIDENTS INVOLVING OVERHEIGHT LOADS AND SUCH STRUCTURES COULD EVEN CAUSE SEVERE INJURY TO PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY.
55 (D) OF THE ROAD SECTION THAT OUT HE POINTED (TRAFFIC CONTROL) REGULATIONS STIPULATED THAT THE HEIGHT OF ANY WHEN CARRIED ON A VEHICLE, MUST NOT EXCEED 4.6 METRES ABOVE SURFACE.
TRAFFIC LOAD, THE ROAD
IF THE "IT ALSO STATES THAT A DRIVER STILL COMMITS AN OFFENCE
DAMAGE
FRECTED TO ANY OBJECT LAWFULLY LOAD ON HIS VEHICLE CAUSES
EXCEED THE 4.6 METRK ABOVE THE ROAD, EVEN THOUGH THE LOAD DOES NOT HEIGHT LIMIT.
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$5,000 "ANY OFFENDER OF THIS REGULATION IS LIABLE TO A PINE OF
CONVICTION, AND A FINE OF AND THREE MONTHS IMPRISONMENT ON FIRST
SECOND ON A
OR SUBSEQUENT MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT $10,000 AND SIX CONVICTION.
WHICH EXTENDS BEYOND THE "WHERE A VEHICLE CARRYING ANY LOAD
WHERE THE LOAD 19 SOME VEHICLE'S OWN BODYHEIGHT, AND PARTICULARLY
IT OR CRANE,
IS EXCAVATOR, TYPE OF ENGINEERING PLANT, SUCH AS AN
THE ESSENTIAL FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL ROAD USERS THAT THE DRIVER CHECKS
OFF ON HIS TRIP,' HEIGHT OF THE LOAD ABOVE THE ROAD BEFORE SETTING THE SPOKESMAN CONTINUED.
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HE EMPHASISED THE PARTICULAR HAZARD OF OVERHEAD · TROLLEY INSTALLED ALONG THE TRAMWAY BETWEEN KENNEDY TOWN AND SHAU KEI HONG KONG ISLAND.
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WIRES
WAN ON
WIRES WAS NOW BEING RAIL SYSTEM UNDER ROAD BETWEEN TUEN MUN
AN EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SIMILAR OVERHEAD LIGHT OF THE TRACKS ALONG THE INSTALLED CONSTRUCTION IN TUEN MUN, AND IN CASTLE PEAK AND YUEN LONG.
HE STRESSED THAT GOODS VEHICLE
RAIL ALERT WHEN CROSSING THE LIGHT ALREADY IN PLACE AND ENERGISED.
SHOULD DRIVERS TRACKS SINCE THESE
BE
ESPECIALLY WIRES WERE
"THE CONSEQUENCES
DISASTROUS, POSING A
WITH VEHICLE THREAT TO THE
TO RAIL NEARBY, AS WELL AS CAUSING DISRUPTION
HE ADDED. INCONVENIENCE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,
OF
CONTACT
THESE
WIRES
OCCUPANTS SERVICES
COULD AND PEOPLE
BE
THAT
WOULD
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