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LOCAL NEWS PAGE 2 & STILL KEEPING YOU IN THE KNOW!

Mostly factual, possibly even trivial but at the end of it all we guarantee

you will know more than you did 10 minutes ago!

A3 Hindhead Tunnel bang on target for early opening!

So how do they get the tunnels in the right place and to meet in the middle?

Around 15 years ago a network of survey stations were established in the area for the planned A3 improvements and these were linked to the Ordnance Survey grid.

To check these existing stations, and establish new ones necessary for the road works, they will be using the Global Positioning System (GPS).

This uses the same satellites as a car navigation system, but that is where the similarity ends. The GPS receivers are set on our survey stations for at least one hour to record their position. The results are processed later to give at least centimetre accuracy as opposed to the 5 to 10 metres obtained from car systems.

Four permanent survey “monuments” have been established in this way at each end of the tunnel.

From these positions we will then establish more survey stations around the tunnel entrance and eventually inside the tunnel.

The most advanced (the one nearest the tunnel face) station are used to control the tunnel excavation.

The tunnel guidance system consists of a robotic theodolite which will be orientated by sighting back down the tunnel, taking readings on the previous survey stations and then tracking targets on the tunnel excavator.

This tells the excavator operator his position in real time and so where to dig.

In this way they control the tunnel alignment.

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Sometimes only a picture can get our attention!

Her last call was from a new mobile phone...

Do you see the motorcycle?

The Honda rider was travelling at approximately 85 mph.

The VW driver was talking on a mobile phone when she pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the motorcycle.

The riders reaction time was simply not sufficient enough to avoid this accident.

The car had two passengers
and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them.

All three involved

(two in the car & the bike rider)

were killed instantly.

STOP Talking & or Texting on Mobile phones whilst trying to drive.
The life you save may be your own..... or mine....

This graphic demonstration was placed at
the Motorcycle Fair by the Police and Road Safety Department..
Pass this on to car drivers or soon to be
new drivers, or new motorcycle owners
AND ESPECIALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO HAS A MOBILE PHONE!!!!!

It is said that

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

Lets hope in this case

this series of horrifying pictures reproduced here can help save a 1,000 lives!

We make no apologies for these graphic pictures because

WE HAVE ALL DONE IT!

The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact
and landed 20 feet from where the collision took place.