Guidance

How to prevent vehicles from hitting bridges

How drivers, transport staff and bridge owners can prevent vehicles from hitting bridges and what to do if a bridge strike happens.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 15 May 2012
• Last updated: 9 July 2014 — See all updates

Documents

Prevention of bridge strikes: a good practice guide for passenger transport operational staff

PDF, 3.78 MB

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Prevention of bridge strikes: a good practice guide for professional drivers

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Prevention of bridge strikes: a good practice guide for professional drivers of passenger vehicles

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Prevention of bridge strikes: a good practice guide for transport managers

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Prevention of strikes on bridges over highways: a protocol for highway managers and bridge owners

PDF, 1.7 MB, 47 pages

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Bridge audit check sheet

PDF, 225 KB, 10 pages

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Bridge headroom, weight limit signs, inspection report

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Review, ranking and improvement of traffic signs at bridges at risk of bridge strikes

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Details

Information and advice to operations and managerial staff plus professional drivers and professional drivers of passenger vehicles on increasing awareness and preventing bridge strikes.

Foreign language versions of bridge strike prevention guidance are available on the Network Rail website.

Related documents

• Response to a bridge strike over the railway (PDF, 2.2MB), 5 October 2009
• Measures to reduce the frequency of over-height vehicles striking bridges: final report (TRL) (PDF, 1.2MB), November 2004
• Low bridges warning signs (see section 7 of Traffic Signs Manual chapter 4), 30 June 2006
• Code of practice: safety of loads on vehicles (PDF, 2.3MB), May 2002
• The risk of bridge strikes (Network Rail)
• Bridge strikes: special topic report (Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) (PDF, 759KB), January 2002
• Road haulage association (RHA)
• Electronic service delivery for abnormal loads (ESDAL)

Published 15 May 2012
Last updated 9 July 2014 + show all updates

1. 9 July 2014

   'Prevention of strikes on bridges over highways: a protocol for highway managers and bridge owners' updated.

2. 15 May 2012

   First published.