Car In Canal at Little Venice

[Alan de Enfield]

After crashing thru the railings the 4x4 caused minor damage to one of the boats - looks like an 'ex-tiller' on the centre boat.

 

 

Cleared away after 48 hours

 

 

Info here :

 

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/white-van-carrying-three-people-plunges-into-canal-in-londons-little-venice-a3207926.html

[junior]

Nice motor.

[churchward]

Oh dear it is one of those expensive (and fashionable) Merc G wagons by the look of it. Was it stolen for joy ridding?

 

I guess if the tiller is the only damage the boats may have got off lightly as that vehicle is heavy and robustly built (being a road model of a military design) so could have been quite destructive I imagine.

[frangar]

That looks like a rather expensive AMG G Wagen…..or rather it was!! Rather beloved of the young rich Arabs in London…are we still allowed to say things like that??

 

That swans neck isn't happy tho…..wonder what other damage its done to the boats??

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[Alan de Enfield]

I imagine the insurance claim will be for a lot of 'stuff' that cannot be seen from the various photos.

[cuthound]

Well thats one Chelsea Tractor that has been further off road than the pavement

[RLWP]

 

That's a handy bit of kit.

 

The boat, not the Merc

 

Richard

[J R ALSOP]

Thats DUDLEY belongs to Wood, Hall & Heward, just got back from the K&A lifting/fitting gates,come from a scrap yard (without Hy-ab).

Only just noticed rudder sticking out of front window, best picture I have ever seen. Hope driver ducked.

[RLWP]

Thats DUDLEY belongs to Wood, Hall & Heward, just got back from the K&A lifting/fitting gates,come from a scrap yard (without Hy-ab).

 

Very nice. I was watching a lorry with a Hiab lifting an engine into a boat last week. The boat was about ten metres in front of the lorry

 

Richard

[ditchcrawler]

Thats DUDLEY belongs to Wood, Hall & Heward, just got back from the K&A lifting/fitting gates,come from a scrap yard (without Hy-ab).

Only just noticed rudder sticking out of front window, best picture I have ever seen. Hope driver ducked.

Is that what it is?

[RLWP]

From the butty on the outside

 

That's very scary

 

Richard

[churchward]

Thats DUDLEY belongs to Wood, Hall & Heward, just got back from the K&A lifting/fitting gates,come from a scrap yard (without Hy-ab).

Only just noticed rudder sticking out of front window, best picture I have ever seen. Hope driver ducked.

Goodness you are right! I wondered what that black object was and now you have pointed it out I can see it is the butties rudder.

[David Mack]

Three people in the vehicle when it went into the water, and none of them injured. I'd say the driver in particular got lucky, looking at that rudder.

Edited March 21, 2016 by David Mack

[zenataomm]

Elum

[RLWP]

Elum

 

Looks like pine to me

 

Richard

[Emerald Fox]

I imagine the insurance claim will be for a lot of 'stuff' that cannot be seen from the various photos.

 

Including whiplash!!

[mark99]

Brownings trouser time.

[DHutch]

Three people in the vehicle when it went into the water, and none of them injured. I'd say the driver in particular got lucky, looking at that rudder.

 

Yeah, I also couldnt work out what it was, but yes, looks close to head location!

 

 

Daniel

[IanM]

Or did the Elum just get knocked off and the recovery people stick it through the windscreen so they could recover everything in one go?

 

Not everything on the internet has a OMG OMG WTF Won't anyone think of the children!!!!!!1111!!!1 explanation

 

Edited to add: But saying that, it does seem have take the bonnet in with it too.

Edited March 22, 2016 by IanM

[NickF]

Elum

Forgive my ignorance I thought an elum was the curved wooded tiller part on a butty ... am I wrong is it the actual wooden rudder?

[churchward]

Forgive my ignorance I thought an elum was the curved wooded tiller part on a butty ... am I wrong is it the actual wooden rudder?

I think you are correct. Elum is a butty tiller arm. The rudder is, well, a rudder. Elum being a corruption of the word "Helm" as I understand it.

Edited March 22, 2016 by churchward

[Bee]

Suprisingly deep there.

[matty40s]

That pair used to be owned by the guy who was the moorings warden at Little Venice, usually moored by the service block, not by the Jason trip boat mooring.

He gave up citing the aggro from "new" boaters quite a few years ago.

[14skipper]

i would think that the timber was put there to stop the lifting chains from folding the roof up when truck was lifted from the water.

 

14skipper

[baz gimson]

pic from facebook

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 2016 by baz gimson