The bridge it came off is one which feeds from the slip road exiting the A12 and is also just past a relatively sharp bend.
It seems likely that he exited the A12 to Witham and then the lorry lost grip, jackknifed or something similar on the bend on the slip road - either because he was going too fast, the load shifted, he lost grip or whatever.
The initial assumption in most cases would be that he simply came off the A12 too quickly onto the slip road and didn't "make" the bend but as a local person he probably knew the junction well which leads one to wonder if the heavy batteries were the issue and it jackknifed.
Horrible accident whatever the reason and could have been 10x worse.
Edited by pd on 10/02/2017 at 10:22
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