Road closed in Ribble Valley after house falls off back of lorry

A rural road in Sabden was blocked today after a prefab house fell off the back of a lorry.

Police say the prefab was being transported through the village at around 11.35am when it came loose from its moorings in the Back Lane area.

Traffic was held up between Padiham Road and Whins Lane while attempts were made to remove the obstruction.

It took an hour and a half for the prefab to be removed by crane and traffic to move freely again.

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Comments(6)

burner says...
12:30pm Tue 2 Aug 11

That's a nice house. Which estate agents did you go to?
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Well . . er . . actually . . .

notchuffed says...
1:33pm Tue 2 Aug 11

Well... er my house, house contents and car insurance are so expensive at this postcode so I thought ....well.... why not move and save a packet.

Will it mean because the accident happened in between I'll get paid from both locations? ....... hope mi **** and goldfish are o.k.

disgusted tunbridge wells says...
1:41pm Tue 2 Aug 11

When I was a lad it was colour tellies that fell off the backs of lorries

Jethro Shorn says...
4:03pm Tue 2 Aug 11

It's another example of developers getting more houses in the Ribble Valley under the noses of the inept Ribble Valley Borough Council. Only another 2999 to go. The main road to Whalley or Barrow would have been much easier. Or were they going to Pendleton to put in in the backgarden of our MP to shame him into speaking out against the desecration of the valley?

clickhere says...
4:23pm Tue 2 Aug 11

Could these be flytippers targeting County Councillor Atkinsons home turf to give him an example of what will happen, having closed Langho, if he now closes Great Harwood Household Waste site??

shytalk says...
6:37pm Tue 2 Aug 11

Jethro Shorn wrote:
It's another example of developers getting more houses in the Ribble Valley under the noses of the inept Ribble Valley Borough Council. Only another 2999 to go. The main road to Whalley or Barrow would have been much easier. Or were they going to Pendleton to put in in the backgarden of our MP to shame him into speaking out against the desecration of the valley?
They should of put it somewhere else other than his back garden. Problem is he might of enjoyed it.
The council are not inept. They are corrupt.
Ribble valley soesn't need anymore housing. It needs jobs.

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