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19/3/2015 at 9:44am
Location: Hertfordshire
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I don't know what went wrong but, somehow, whilst crossing Rouen from north to south, we ended up travelling along the river in the left-hand lane which takes you through the cursèd underpass tunnels. The first one we encounterered had 2.4m headroom (sic) as did the next and the next and the next.... just 1.85m! Having gone under the 'bar' before realising this, and uncertain as to whether I had scraped it or not, I was obliged to stop on the ramp as I was not sure that I would get through with the (borrowed)roof box on. Reversing out with a trailer on the back was not an option (It was rush hour!!) so I was left with the option of either 'going for it', but the headshaking of the highly-amused drivers in the adjacent lane suggested otherwise, or getting out and removing the roofbox on to the top of the trailer and refitting it on the other side.
OH was sitting in the passenger seat in a state of shock when a very nice French driver gave a toot, pulled up alongside and said, in very good English, that we ought to get through, just, and that he would drive through with us 'just in case'. It turned out that there was a God after all, and we made it with millimetres to spare.
I would not wish to repeat this again!
Moral:
1. Check your headroom before leaving home.
2. Switch off your satnav when anywhere near Rouen.
3. Revert to 'navigator and map' mode.
4. Don't borrow a roofbox.
5. Find another way to cross the Seine.
It got worse, but that's another story!!!
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