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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

fossé situé dans l’embranchement

English translation:

ditch located in the fork / at the junction of /

Added to glossary by Rebecca Elliott
Jul 17, 2009 13:36
15 yrs ago
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French term

fossé situé dans l’embranchement

French to English Tech/Engineering Automotive / Cars & Trucks
This is from a police report of a road traffic accident between two vehicles. Vehicle "A" is a caravan that came uncoupled on collision. Not sure what the correct road terms are here.

Sous la violence du choc, le véhicule “A” se décroche du véhicule “B” est est poussée par la cabine du véhicule “C” pour finir sa course dans le fossé situé dans l’embranchement d’une voie d’insertion.

Thank you
Proposed translations (English)
4 ditch located in the fork / at the junction of /
4 ditch lateral to (or sideways of) the intersection with a weaving lane

Discussion

Rebecca Elliott (asker) Jul 17, 2009:
Thank you both for your help. I think I need to somehow make it clear that the vehicle ended up in the ditch between the main road and slip road (as you said Bourth) rather than just the ditch of the slip road.
Bourth (X) Jul 17, 2009:
Agree with Chris "dans l'embranchement" seems unnecessarily complicated, unless of course the road layout IS complicated. An "embranchement" is a Y-junction, so says PIARC. It would be unusual (but not impossible) for a slip road to have its own Y-junction. What it must mean is that the caravan ended up in the ditch between the road/motorway it had been travelling on and the slip road.<br><br>Re. slip road, while PIARC gives "vitesse d'insertion" (entry speed), it does not give "voie d'insertion", but rather "voie d'entrée" = "entry slip road, entry ramp, entrance ramp".
chris collister Jul 17, 2009:
in the ditch... As is often the way, it sounds as if this vehicle ended up in the ditch, in this case where a side or feeder road joins the main road. This would be a slip road if a motorway. I wouldn't be surprised if "situé dans l'embranchement..." is redundant.

Proposed translations

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ditch located in the fork / at the junction of /

Pretty sure this is it - might need a little wrangling but the right terms are there.
Reference:

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/rddesign/rd/RTDS/04/281.pdf

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3 hrs

ditch lateral to (or sideways of) the intersection with a weaving lane

Bauindustrie und öffentliches Bauwesen [COM] Vollständiger Eintrag
DE Entwässerungsgraben
Straßengraben
Graben
EN ditch
FR fossé
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do;jsessionid=9...

VERKEHR, Landverkehr [COM] Vollständiger Eintrag
FR embranchement
DE Einmündung
EN Y intersection
fork
Y junction

Landverkehr [COM] Vollständiger Eintrag
FR embranchement d'une route
embranchement
DE Straßeneinmündung
Einmündung
EN signing intersection
junction
side road
branch
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do;jsessionid=9...

VERKEHR [EIB] Vollständiger Eintrag
FR voie d'insertion
EN weaving lane
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do;jsessionid=9...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-07-17 17:19:46 GMT)
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I regard "lateral to" or "sideways of" more fluently than "located at or in"
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