Army transporter carrying a Titan tank knocks down pylon in Wimborne

Personal Injury Dorset A TRAILER carrying an armoured engineer vehicle caused hold-ups in Wimborne town centre on Monday when it was in collision with a pylon and a street sign. A low-loading trailer with a 62,500-kilogram Titan onboard knocked down some cables and a street sign at the roundabout next to The Pudding and Pye Pub, in West Street, just after 9am. Dorset Police attended as the vehicle was blocking one lane of the roundabout and engineers from the electricity provider Southern Electric arrived at 10.45am to deal with live wires coming from a pylon. No-one was injured in the accident, a police spokesman said, which also damaged part of the town’s CCTV system. The Titan is used in the field to carry and lay ‘close support’ bridges, allowing troops and vehicles to cross up to 60 metre gaps. It was believed to be from the Bulford army base, near Salisbury but a Ministry of Defence spokesman declined to comment on the incident. Police officers escorted the army vehicle through town and back on to the A31. source: bournemouthecho.co.uk