retractable bollards on carpark entrance

pwllbwdr

Did you hit it with the front of your car or the underside?

geordie_taxi

If you damaged the bollard the car park owners have every right to claim against your insurance for damages that you caused by driving without due care and attention. as it's a shopping centre most probably a private secure car park which should have cctv. this could be used against you but if as you say the bollard malfunctioned this could prove you correct

wealdroam

Have you spoken to the owners of the car park yet?

Why did the engineer attend?

Have you told the car park owners that their faulty equipment has damaged your car?

I think you need to be a bit proactive with this. If you don't get on at them, they will forget you.

skiddlydiddly

Quite a few clips of these things on youtube, including a council officer demonstrating they won't come up if someone is stood on it, only for the reporter to stand on it and lift him 3 feet in the air.Pretty dumb things I think, there are les risky options available.

optimus_primera

Part of me says you should have looked where you were going, but another part is thinking that driving into a dark carpark on a bright sunny day, you'd be lucky to spot anything for a couple of minutes ......

skiddlydiddly

Especially with how tight some corners are in car parks as the scrapes along the wall testify.

optimus_primera

Try Grimsby shopping centre car park ..... its very very tight.....

driver92

It was bright that day, and while there are lights in the car park, it can be quite dark coming from the outside, it's a free car park and as I've said before previously I don't think they've been operated since..I'm in the process of taking legal advice, just wondering what the consensus of opinion here was, as my own feeling is that there was a malfunction, or they were sited incorrectly, too close to the entrance. My car has significant damage driver's side,- light, wing and underside, I was just stopped dead in my tracks, no skid round, I wasn't expecting it.

iamana1ias

Did you hit it when it was already up or did it come put of the floor when you were over it? It's not a difficult question!

custardy

iamana1ias wrote: »

Did you hit it when it was already up or did it come put of the floor when you were over it? It's not a difficult question!

not always
they come up fast(going by the youtube videos)
so one coming up as you approach (but below your level of vision from the bonnet) could be up enough ot create a frontal impact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Cw0QJU8ro

look at this one.on the 1st one its about a second to be high enough to hit the front of the car