Sentence examples for lorry speed from inspiring English sources

A reversing lorry, speed bumps, even pot holes.

These ferries are popular with hauliers who face tighter controls on both lorry speeds and drivers' hours.Some supporters claim that the bridge will accelerate the development of the backward economies of Calabria and Sicily.

On Thursday night in Nice, France, a lorry sped down the seaside promenade where people had gathered to celebrate Bastille Day.

Many people therefore ignored it, preferring to dice with death by scaling the fence as cars and lorries sped by.

Cars and lorries now speed by at 130kph (80mph).

Even in London, despite the ballyhoo, few cycling commuters have routes that don't involve close calls with lorries and speeding cars.

"All of France is under threat from Islamist terrorism," said an ashen-faced Hollande in a televised address from the presidential palace just before 4am, hours after a driver ploughed a lorry at high speed into a crowd gathered on the Nice seafront to watch the Bastille Day fireworks.

To try and picture this acceleration force, if we put a 1kg bag of sugar on the wheel rim, it would exert a force of 50 tonnes (more than the weight of a fully loaded articulated lorry) at full speed.

The horrific Bastille Day attack on Nice, in which a Tunisian delivery driver killed 84 people when he drove a heavy lorry at full-speed into a crowd watching fireworks, will be a defining concern in next year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

A classic example is this Daily Telegraph comment piece by Beverley Turner, the wife of the rower James Cracknell, who suffered a serious brain injury when the mirror of a speeding lorry struck his head as he cycled in the US in 2010.

The man was badly injured after he was struck by a lorry being driven at speed in South Armagh at about 1.30pm on Friday.