Letters / Terrifying moment
This is to the organiser/ driver of a lorry carrying a big boat on Friday the 2nd June about 1pm. I was driving north on the A970 from Voe towards Brae when a lorry was coming in the opposite direction going south.
It was obviously a wide load so I slowed down a bit, then to my amazement I saw a boat on the lorry which was bigger than the lorry!
It was loaded diagonally so that the side of it was hanging over the side of the lorry. Not only that, it was hanging over the side of the oncoming traffic instead of on the landward side, where if it had fallen off it would not have landed on a car.
It was one of the most terrifying moments of my driving life as I passed under that boat.
If anyone knows who that was, I would be grateful if they would report the incident to the police because it was one of the most stupid and dangerous things I have ever seen.
Dorothy O’Brien
Brae
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