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omg a friend of mine has told me on a few occasions about his mum seeing a lady run over by a steam roller when she was younger (she's in her 40's) but i always thought it was aload of rubbish. am gunna phone her and find out were it happened.

Can't be more than the one incident surely, it must be the same one. Let us know please,Rickie

there was more than 1 incident. the 1 my mates mum seen was at the bottom of argyle street and it was when she was 9. she in her late 40's now. she said even though she was young she still remembers it clearly and what she said happened was just awful. .

Oh dear! They don't go very fast so you would think one would br able to get out of the way! Thanks for the info Rickie.

appaerntly she had no chance. she had her back to it and appaerntly it werent even moving very fast but by time she had realised it was too late. she said she had no chance to do anything

oh yea and also there was no driver. it had rolled itself down argyle

I remember coming home from the Floral Pavilion one night at about 11.30pm, in 1958, I should think it was. It had been snowing since about 4.30pm. The bus driver was having to drive with his windscreen up because the wipers couldn't cope. (real dedication in those days).
As we came down St hilarys Brow the bus started sliding on the fresh snow. It went sideways across the junction with Breck Road and finished across Wallacre Road.
The Driver gave up at that and we walked the rest of the way.
It was a close call!
I was in a Pantomine called "Land of the Christmas Stocking" Does anyone else remember?

sounds like its a regular occurrence for here then!!!


this is the bus that nearly ended up in our garden in 2010.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the St Hilary Brow roundabout... a bit on the small side for a lot of the large vehicles about today and not ideal in the ice (but what road is).
It's not the roundabout's fault some people are incompetent fools...

Don't think there's any slope in Argyle st, could it have been Argyle Street South

Thanks bezzy, yes it was the steam roller accident i was asking about, very shocking.

I don't know what it is about reported accidents involving pedestrians being run over by steamrollers in Birkenhead but there's maybe something strange going on.

My mother (who would be 97 if she were still with us)used to tell us about an incident she clearly witnessed and remembered when she was a girl in which another girl was run over by a steamroller on New Chester Road near its junction with St Pauls Road.