Getting out of your car on an autovia, even during a breakdown, is always dangerous and it was during a breakdown incident that a man in his mid 50s lost his life
Tow-Truck Operator Killed
by Vivienne Hughes •
Tag Archive for breakdown lorry
Thefts of Opportunity
by Martin Myall •
Now that the summer is here, it is not only tourists who come down to the coast, but also the light fingered.
Impossible Traffic Fine
by Hugh MacArthur •
Many people consider that there is a percentage of traffic fines that exist only to rake in funds, and after this incident, who could disagree with them?
Breakdown Lorry Law Breaker
by Martin Myall •
How many of you have walked up to where you had parked your car to find it missing, replaced by a sniggering sticker on the kerb, informing you that your 4-wheeled sweetheart now nestles in the dungeons of the municipal compound? More than a few.
But then again, how grateful we are to see a breakdown lorry appear when we are stranded on the hard shoulder with an inert and sulking car?
But there is now a third kind of breakdown lorry – or there was until the police arrested its owner/driver: a man who has spent recent years picking up legally parked cars and taking them off to a scrapyard to collect between 100 and 150 euros for each one from an equally crooked scrap-yard owner.