CalderRail
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Reports on social media that St Pancras was evacuated; an unattended vehicle near the station was dealt with by the bomb squad
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Disruption at St Pancras (Possible Bomb Threat) 18/08/26
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GRALISTAIR
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Bomb squad don't mess around do they?
andyjhatton
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Going to be an interesting insurance claim for somebody.
Iskra
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Hopefully they pick up the bill for the delay minutes too
Well when the car is parked where it is, it has probably been watched and not moved for a bit, I'm not surprised they've done what they have.
D1537
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A pointless one as well, no insurance company is paying that. Same as if you leave your vehicle blocking an emergency services vehicle and it has to be "helped" out of the way.
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Can't blame them at all for reacting as they did. Who leaves a car unattended there?
Exactly what I wrote further up, absolutely ridiculous place to leave a car.
One may use the word 'abandoned' in that particular position.
Knowing the road gets fairly busy, it's difficult to imagine someone's point of view being 'it'll be okay if i leave it here and rush in to the station with someone or to pick someone up' and not come back in the timeframe taken to organise the EOD team and subsequent arrival.
Knowing the road gets fairly busy, it's difficult to imagine someone's point of view being 'it'll be okay if i leave it here and rush in to the station with someone or to pick someone up' and not come back in the timeframe taken to organise the EOD team and subsequent arrival.
gabrielhj07
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Bloody Nissan juke drivers
As exactly that happens all across the country every day it's rather easy to imagine that train of thought.
Deepgreen
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I trust they also received a parking ticket (plus fly-tipping charges)...
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One fewer on the road
Every cloud and all that
Poor journalism though, describing it as a vehicle. Sack the journalist!
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Expensive day then but what do they expect leaving it there.
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Interesting that the car still appears to be locked (door mirror folded) but the bonnet is open. No sign of debris in front of the car so wonder if it was opened by the robot or manual intervention?
Because they have blown the car up using the robot.
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When I heard there was something decrepit, smashed to pieces and abandoned at St Pancras, I thought immediately of the "Class 222 Declining Reliability" thread.
traji00
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Looks like Pancras Road, near the junction with Goods Way.
Pancras Rd
Im pretty sure it is . Absolutely astonishing , considering there are nearer places to entrances and exits.
I think they may have been wondering how the bonnet ended up open. It appears to be held open by the stay rod, suggesting the bonnet was opened manually, rather than as a result of the controlled explosion.
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Don’t think the robot put up the bonnet strut though
Lifting the bonnet is trivial once the robot has secured entry to the vehicle
Wouldn't surprise me if the manufacturers could unlock it remotely anyway
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Surprised its not a double red around there
Yes - I think the other poster is just highlighting that it's interesting the bonnet appears to have been opened manually, before or after detonation, but all the doors are closed and the wing mirrors are folded in which on that model of Juke implies they're locked.
Agreed to be honest. Presumably not a TfL road which are (almost?) always red routes, but a Camden borough one. My understanding (happy to be corrected) is that all London red routes are managed by TfL, so I wonder what the rules are regarding boroughs creating their own as the relevant highways authority, rather than when TfL are the highways authority.
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