Thread: Overhead Clearance Bars in Car Parks

There is a nortoriously low railway bridge on Wynmum Road at Moringside in Brisbane Qld,and many years ago(in the 1950's) there was a Circus (Worths I think) travelling to a new venue,and the truck carrying their Elephant got it wedged under the bridge,this caused a major problem, as it is a very major road,and a well used rail line,the Circus staff with a vet in attendance let most of the air out of the truck's tyres,and tried to reverse the vehicle out with the very agitated bellowing animal on board,this got worse whenever a train passed over head,the circus had got a bloke to stand up by the railway line to flag the trains down, the old steam locos so as not to spook the elephant,it provided several hours to us primary school kids I remember it took a fair bit of skin off the animal's back, the whole thing took about 3-4 hours.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

There is a nortoriously low railway bridge on Wynmum Road at Moringside in Brisbane Qld,and many years ago(in the 1950's) there was a Circus (Worths I think) travelling to a new venue,and the truck carrying their Elephant got it wedged under the bridge,this caused a major problem, as it is a very major road,and a well used rail line,the Circus staff with a vet in attendance let most of the air out of the truck's tyres,and tried to reverse the vehicle out with the very agitated bellowing animal on board,this got worse whenever a train passed over head,the circus had got a bloke to stand up by the railway line to flag the trains down, the old steam locos so as not to spook the elephant,it provided several hours to us primary school kids I remember it took a fair bit of skin off the animal's back, the whole thing took about 3-4 hours.

Sounds like a lot of Clowning around.............

I park the D4 in the China Town carpark in the Valley. It has a max height sign of 1.95m, which is only just higher than the D4. I wasn't keen to try it, but saw a few other D4's/D3's parked in there and gave it a go. It's scary driving under the clearance bar.

I've been using it for a few months now, but still crap myself every time I drive in ...

I banged a roof rack on a shopping centre car park down ramp height bar a couple of years ago, and couldn't back out because of cars behind me, so had to drive over a concrete median to get out.
Annoyingly, you often find the height is fine for most of the car park, except for one spot, so they sign the whole car park, when better design could have raised the height for all the car park.

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Minimum height posted on the bar probably refers to minimum height in the car park . The bar is probably a tad lower than the minimum height for obvious reasons ( a bit like a SWL ). Just imagine that the bar is identical to the lowest point in the car park and you "just" make it under and you park and let out 4 to 6 fat passengers and then leave all by yourself and then get stuck going under the lowest beam in the place . You could drive the town car to town and save the mud plugger for outer metro duties.

Don't go counting on the video footage. Chances are, they will not had it over without a court order.

As it is their property (the footage), they are under no legal obligation to supply you a copy, and depending on their internal procedures, they DVR may over-write within 7 days.

I would send them a letter, advising that you are going to be advising your insurance company, and could they please retrieve & hold the footage in case it is required later on.

That way, IF it ever goes down the line, they would have a hard time explaining why they can't produce the footage.

Originally Posted by solmanic

No ticket unfortunately as the machine swallows it on exit. I'm not too worried since there will be video footage. Even if the operator conveniently misplaced that, then my wife had a passenger and a couple of stat decs would suffice. We only have to demonstrate our car is under 2.0m and I already checked that. Stock wheels & tyres and it's basically new so there's nothing else they could dispute.

Besides, they even state the minimum height of that particular car park is 2m on the Mater Hospital website.

Might not be entirely relevant, but isn't it law that a receipt be provided showing GST paid for any good or service?

go through insurance.

having the bar scrape and then not hit anything in the car park is a lot better than vice versa.

in the event of perentie VS Fire main where the clearance is advertised incorrectly. The perentie wins.