Car punctured because of kerb

Cpu2007

Hello everyone,
I know what I am going to ask might sound a bit silly.

I have a car which tyre got punctured recently, I went to the mechanic and he told me that that puncure cannot be fixed because the tyre got damaged by the edge.
I asked him how is that possible and he said that it might happend because of a sharp kerb. I was wondering how is this possible as i have been driving my car and never had such problem with kerbs and didn't know kerbs could be so dangerous.
Then I realized that right where I live there is narrow place where I have to go through and because of council trucks,camions that kerb got damaged and is broken and has sharp edges(look at the picture)


I have to buy a new tyre which is gonna cost me alot and I was wondering if it was possible to claim the council or something as the damage happend because of them somehow.

dunstonh

I was wondering if it was possible to claim the council or something as the damage happend because of them somehow.

No. You dont have a clue how the damage happened. So, any attempt to get the local taxpayers to cover it would be fraudulent.

Whilst some of these road narrowing schemes can be a pain, you would not get a puncture hitting the kerb if you went through it at a appropriate speed. To get a sidewall tear you to have hit a kerb or a pothole at speed. Pot holes are actually a more likely cause.

Vortigern

No. You can't claim if you don't know exactly where and when the incident occured. You have no witnesses.

That said, there are far too many ill-considered road-narrowing schemes with insufficient warning or visibility. The kerbs ought to be painted in some high-vis colour and there should be black/white posts with reflectors. Complain to your local authority (if it's their road)

ILW

I would learn to drive and stop bumping into kerbs. Simple solution really.

ILW

Vortigern wrote: »

No. You can't claim if you don't know exactly where and when the incident occured. You have no witnesses.

That said, there are far too many ill-considered road-narrowing schemes with insufficient warning or visibility. The kerbs ought to be painted in some high-vis colour and there should be black/white posts with reflectors. Complain to your local authority (if it's their road)

Or alternatively, drivers could just look where they are going.

Browntoa

be funny if the council counter claimed for you damaging the kerbstone

Cpu2007

Browntoa wrote: »

be funny if the council counter claimed for you damaging the kerbstone

actually they do, the road tax and stuff we pay goes on the repair and other stuff... it would be stupid paying road tax otherwise i think
the co2 emission is not really the main reason.

Cpu2007

ILW wrote: »

I would learn to drive and stop bumping into kerbs. Simple solution really.

easy to say things then doing them,check the picture carefully again.
the narrow road hardly lets the car go throw, the corner of the kerb is pretty much damaged, previously there were rocks that were on the side,making it impossible to drive without hitting them ,which then have been removed.

so i don't really know how driving carefully on here is the solution

Cpu2007

dunstonh wrote: »

No. You dont have a clue how the damage happened. So, any attempt to get the local taxpayers to cover it would be fraudulent.

Whilst some of these road narrowing schemes can be a pain, you would not get a puncture hitting the kerb if you went through it at a appropriate speed. To get a sidewall tear you to have hit a kerb or a pothole at speed. Pot holes are actually a more likely cause.

I understand that I do not have proofs that it happend because of this, i just assumed after the puncuture occured soon after the damage with the kerb caused by those camions.

I disagree on the fact that the puncure in that case can occur only at a certain speed.
when i saw bubbles coming out at the mechanic he shown me tittle bubbles coming out on the edge of the tyre...
if a kerb is sharp and u touch it,no matter what speed ,the friction is gonna damage it.

ILW

Cpu2007 wrote: »

easy to say things then doing them,check the picture carefully again.
the narrow road hardly lets the car go throw, the corner of the kerb is pretty much damaged, previously there were rocks that were on the side,making it impossible to drive without hitting them ,which then have been removed.

so i don't really know how driving carefully on here is the solution

I have never hit a kerb in a width restriction, do you drive a transit van or something very wide?

Cpu2007

ILW wrote: »

I have never hit a kerb in a width restriction, do you drive a transit van or something very wide?

neither I did, the car is the one you see in the picture with wide tyres.
but sometime you don't see things properly because of signing and other problems.
if you drive on that kerb width restriction, on a normal small car it will leave around 5 to 8cm. Assuming my car is a bit big in width,it leaves me around 5 to 6cm,council camions that come for the to pick up the waste etc have to to hit both sides of the kerb(hence the damage) and i dont why the council allows them to go through there.

back to my point, to my car it leaves around 5 to 6cm but as i said therewere rocks on that side recenly,which made it impossible to pass through without hitting something.