Category Archives: accidents

Abingdon Broken Bike Rack

Abingdon Broken Bike Rack
Yesterday, the Abingdon Herald and Abingdon Facebook group had pictures of a van crashed into a bike rack on Abingdon’s High Street. A tangle of bikes and a van could be seen from their pictures. Nobody was injured.

The damaged bike rack and one remaining bike has been cordoned off today.

Sur le Pont d’Abingdon

Sur le Pont dAbingdon
The Abingdon Blog is having a few days rest as the blogger has been visiting places in the south of France, including Avignon. Avignon has a famous bridge across the Rhône.
Sur le Pont dAbingdon
At Avignon, the original bridge no longer goes all the way across.It has fallen down and been rebuilt a number of times. The Rhône is a powerful river and during the mini ice age, of medieval times, big blocks of ice came crashing against the spans sending them tumbling into the water.
Sur le Pont dAbingdon
The Avignon bridge is known around the world because of the famous children’s song,
Sur le pont d’Avignon,
On y danse,
on y danse,
Sur le pont d’Avignon,
On y danse,
tous en rond.

There was no dancing today, but a mistral was blowing us all about, and I thought that people taking pictures of each other, or selfies, looked like dancing.

Normal blog service will be resumed as soon as I find my way back from Avignon to Abingdon. Take care. It would be dangerous dancing Sur le Pont d’Abingdon.

River Closed – Police Incident

River Closed
At Abingdon Lock boats were not being allowed through from Oxford as there was a police incident at Culham Reach.
River Closed
So boats were allowed to go to Oxford but would not be allowed back again until the restriction was lifted. Both river and footpath were closed just beyond Abingdon Marina while the police, fire, and environment agency searched the river.
River Closed
It meant there were very few boats coming through Abingdon today.