Damage to car on employees car park

caprikid1

Whilst I can understand your frustration, you damaged your car. You drove into a stationary object.


Have you been to the stores now and grabbed some earthing electrical tape and marked the pipe ? Probably not.


I think a similar thing would be high kerbs in public car parks. A dip in the tarmac can mean the car hits when it would not normally. Its down to you to asses.


Why can't people take responsibility any more. You drove into a stationary object, no difference to a wall , a tree etc etc.

Strider590

Diamond_lover wrote: »

Supermarket bollards are around 3ft in height and as I've said in my original post this was approx 1ft high, bit of a difference don't you think??

I don't know, I always reverse park and I check the parking space as I drive past. I can't see the 3ft bollards when i'm reversing, but I know they're there.

I get 3/4 of the way into the space, I get out, get a visual idea of the gap, get back in, leave the door open, pick a ground spot around equal distance back from the door and then reverse until the door is at that spot. I'm normally within a few cm of the bollard......

If you blindly swing your car into a parking space you don't have time to react if there's an obstruction...... Be it a pipe, a bollard, a small child, a motorbike or even a smart car.

The act of driving a car into a space nose first, requires the driver to pay excessive attention to not hitting the other cars and diverts attention away from smaller obstacles that may be in the parking space itself.

takman

I don't think the employer should pay for your damage. Whenever I choose a space to park in I always check it first and would never drive into a space before I fully see it. When I check the space I'm looking for things such as pieces of metal and broken glass which are a lot lower than 1ft from the ground.