On Monday afternoon at 4:40pm Jo Oliver was driving up Cinque Port Street with her two children, following a huge juggernaut. She had been following it from Broad Oak, Brede to Rye.
She observed that it was a very wide vehicle with a left-hand side driver position so it went well over the white line causing other cars to get out of its way.
When the driver indicated to turn right through Landgate all three of them were shocked.
“We had watched him narrowly missing cars as he passed and when he turned the corner to go through the arch there was a loud scraping sound as he hit the pavement bollard and damaged the stones around it, causing a hazard to pedestrians.
"Our narrow historic streets are not capable of coping with these monsters and shop signs are in danger of being damaged.”
The Standard reported that its sign had been hit on the same day but luckily its swing-ability saved it from harm.
James Gossage captured the photograph of it travelling down the Mint at 4:45 pm and reported that it screeched to a stop outside Marino’s Fish Bar then swerved around a parked vehicle and roared off down the road.
