I seem to recall that someone recently posted about their car being damaged by a pot hole. Wirral Council has been ordered to pay for the damage done to a claimants car as well as his costs.
tinyurl.com/yskpty
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Well anybody who gets a pay out is very lucky. It seems that a council only has to prove that they have inspected the road within the last 6 months and that no 3rd party has reported a pothole since the last inspection and they are considered to be blameless
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Travelling at 50mph, 10 miles under the speed limit for the road, the impact blew out two tyres and damaged the tracking and wishbone arm of the suspension, a total of £1,370 worth of damage.
Its a big hole tho!
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Find your local council here
tinyurl.com/2fhonn
to report pot-holes.
I do that in Herts and I find the county council's responsiveness to be very satisfactory, usually resulting in a repair within hours rather than days. Herts has a direct channel
tinyurl.com/6ptbs
that gets picked up on laptops in the cabs of the repair vehicles out on the road.
They do depend to a surprising extent on reports from the general public.
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All the same, they used to use Mercedeses in Africa, the continent of gigantic sharp-edged potholes, because they were supposed to stand up to it, and largely did.
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Its a big hole tho!
If it's that big it should be clearly visible. I don't understand people driving over a pothole that is big enough to cause damage to their car.
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L\'escargot.
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The crteria is that the hole / defect has to be at least 40 mm deep to qualify to be a danger.This is the statement I recieved from Surrey C Council when I reported a road defect. But after 4years of constant nagging an email almost every month the width of the road adjacent to where we life is being dug to a depth of 2 feet and 20 feet long and then back filed and tarmaced to rectify a defect the council initially dismissed as not a problem.
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rustbucket (the original)
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This happened to me a few years ago - wrecking tyre and bending alloy front wheel - I contacted council who gave me details to claim on their insurance - suprisingly they refused to pay out as the council had records of the hole being inspected and recorded -The hole was square edged about 6" deep and full of water - I then rang around to find if the council were liable and a call to McAlpines tarmac division came up with a good response - it seems that even though it was inspected they could be deemed at fault due to negligence and Malfeasance (hope spelling is right) - I sent a letter off to insurance company and almost by return post they accepted responsibily- paid out £250 and never even sent an assesor out.
Seems you need magic words.
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There seems to be less good road maintenance now. To whom ought we complain? If Councils now get less from Government to deal with roads, presumably it's the DoT? Only M and Trunk roads seems smooth running, with proper foundations.
Many A roads appear to be repaired in the way a farmer might have repaired his drive in the 1950s. Utilities' repairs too are never more than B-road patches and "flush" seems to means less than 5 cms.
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