A lorry was left in a precarious position after it collided with a bridge in Keighley this afternoon.
Police were called to the scene in Park Lane shortly after noon and the vehicle was moved by 2pm.
The road was closed between Parkwood Street and Coney Lane, after the lorry's load became displaced in the collision with the railway bridge close to the Globe pub.
The incident was spotted by T&A Camera Club member Krisy Leach, who said: "It seems to happen here a lot. Maybe needs better signs? No one was hurt, luckily."
The spot is notorious for bridge strikes, and district councillors called for improvements in 2017, after a skip wagon overturned.
That incident was the fourth similar accident in just four years at the 13ft 6in-high bridge, which carries the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway over the road.
In June 2015 a skip wagon turned over under the bridge, dislodging several large stones from the wall; in January 2014 a lorry got stuck while trying to manoeuvre beneath the bridge; and in November 2013 a lorry delivering stone overturned after its container clipped the bridge.
In 2003 a driver jammed his articulated lorry under the bridge, peeling back the roof of the trailer and ripping away the ‘maximum height’ sign.
At that time there were at least 11 signs on approach roads warning that there is a low bridge, including one 50 yards along Parkwood Street and others at the junctions with East Parade, Longcroft and Parkwood Rise.
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