Stuck

Lovely spot, one of my favourites, but definitely not for a large vehicle. Plenty of that going on in Cornwall at the moment. I live alongside a high banked single track lane A few days ago a lady managed to turn her car over rather than give way to an oncoming vehicle. She drove so far up the bank that the car rolled onto its side and, because it’s a steep hill, then onto its roof. She suffered cuts & bruises, shock and a ruined holiday. Sat Nav took her down the steep narrow lane when there is a perfectly good wide road running almost parallel!

In our area it is narrow roads/lanes and ditches plus very short site lines on windy roads,

If there's grass in the middle, don't do it.

For the brave you can attempt Hemmick from the Gorran Haven side, but go no further than the NT car park at Penare which is convenient to walk to the beach or Dodman Point. There’s still a narrow lane to contend with, but it does have a few passing places. Approaching Hemmick from Boswinger is madness.

The NT have a lovely little cottage at Hemmick right on the beach Hemmick - about idyllic a location that you’ll find anywhere. 

We followed a snow plough up Chelker one day in Land Rover. Everyone had to turn around when the snow plough got stuck!😁

Looking through reviews of local campsites for visitors and came across this comment “Read all the reviews (including the bad one) and off we went, the journey was great the only bit that was iffy was the road to the actual campsite as it is used as a rat run by locals coming and going to Mevagissey.” The reviewer clearly doesn’t understand that in these parts, that lane is all there is - the next best thing to a motorway! A more accurate description would be “used by tourists in the summer blindly following sat nav who can’t drive backwards or have any idea how wide their car/motorhome/caravan is” Some of them need to recognise that meeting oncoming isn’t a prelude to a game of brinkmanship, courtesy and patience are much more appreciated, as is a friendly wave or smile!

Rant over 

Almost certainly no road sign as the road is nothing out of the ordinary in these parts. Like many Cornish lanes largely single track with plenty of passing spaces and busy enough to make progress very slow in holiday season. 

I can understand the point about newbies, plenty of them about just now.

I was trying to work out how they could have escaped had the ordeal gone on for too long, I presume some sort of roof exit would have benn planned?

Dunelm - “I cannot understand why, according to another post, the couple have become "minor celebrities" in the area. They certainly don't fit dictionary definitions of "celebrity".

It doesn’t take much these days, notoriety is as good as merit or talent! 🥴

Apologies, there may be some cross communication - when referring to signage I meant the lane described as a ‘rat run’. The road to Hemmick from either direction will have warning I’m sure.

Yes.

And also they were blocking emergency vehicle access to anyone who may have needed it.

Perhaps you missed the word "ordeal"in my post David?

Narrow lanes are a fact of life all over the uk and require due care and attention.

Those of us who live with narrow lanes have no desire to look elsewhere, these lanes have been around longer than us, perhaps they frighten some users and confuse others but country driving requires a different set of skills.

I was glad to hear the people in question finally got out.

If the aforementioned signs were at the top of the road then the driver was not "unfortunate" if s/he chose to ignore them . As divers we have certain responsibilities, including knowing the size of our vehicles and taking notice of signs. There is nothing of "superiority" about that. Of course, it is possible that in certain circumstances any of us may get stuck in a lane but would you actually choose to  go down a road in such a motorhome if a sign stated that it was "unsuitable for wide vehicles"? For those who would not then it is not a case of "superiority" but common sense and responsibility.

Our dimensions, imperial and metric, laminated and velcro'd onto the material above the rear view mirror.

Always been good for those Harry Potter Night Bus moments 😱. As when you look at the gap or height the info refuses to be recalled in the time available.

Mentioning no names - on the IoW the driver decided we would take the road that was barely wide enough, one of those to deter bigger vehicles. It was plenty wide enough  BUT the overhanging branches weren't trimmed back by the council or other vehicles!!! Got a bit of a dent and needed a new end to the wind-out awning.............