Damaged my car due to grit bin in the road, can i claim from council/RA?

Smuggo

Deleted_User wrote: »

If some knob comes flying round a corner meaning I have to swerve to the side to let them past - I don't. I just stop and let them go round me. No way would I let some knob flying round that corner push me into the hedge.

I didn't really swerve, basically i came out as road was clear but car was coming down (quite fast) and became visible from behind the parked cars as I was coming round, I slowed to pretty much a stop and just pulled the nose left a bit and then crunch.

On reflection I totally didn't need to do so as I think there was enough room but you know it how it is, you just react to what is happening sometimes.

And yes as people keep pointing out I did know there is a bin around there but was not really thinking about that at the time as it seemed at that point like there was a chance another car could clip my driver side and as this thing is so low I couldn't see it.

Having looked at it I don't think it is a council bin either and is owned by the RA, though the place I used to live had green council grit bins (they had the council logo emblazoned on the lid) so you do get them.

Anyway, bodyshop guy coming tomorrow to give me a quote though he said from the photo I sent of the damage he doesn't think it'll be too hard to fix up which is good. Still gonna write the RA cause I don't think this thing should be there and is a hazard. If you put a skip in the road you need to have reflectors on it and lights (and it's massive and yellow) so I'd assume there are similar rules for anything else left in the road for exactly this kind of reason. Also there seems to be no reason other than trying to be thrifty for them to not just get some double yellows painted there to stop people parking on the corner.

BeenThroughItAll

Smuggo wrote: »

I didn't really swerve, basically i came out as road was clear but car was coming down (quite fast) and became visible from behind the parked cars as I was coming round, I slowed to pretty much a stop and just pulled the nose left a bit and then crunch.

On reflection I totally didn't need to do so as I think there was enough room but you know it how it is, you just react to what is happening sometimes.

And yes as people keep pointing out I did know there is a bin around there but was not really thinking about that at the time as it seemed at that point like there was a chance another car could clip my driver side and as this thing is so low I couldn't see it.

Having looked at it I don't think it is a council bin either and is owned by the RA, though the place I used to live had green council grit bins (they had the council logo emblazoned on the lid) so you do get them.

Anyway, bodyshop guy coming tomorrow to give me a quote though he said from the photo I sent of the damage he doesn't think it'll be too hard to fix up which is good. Still gonna write the RA cause I don't think this thing should be there and is a hazard. If you put a skip in the road you need to have reflectors on it and lights (and it's massive and yellow) so I'd assume there are similar rules for anything else left in the road for exactly this kind of reason. Also there seems to be no reason other than trying to be thrifty for them to not just get some double yellows painted there to stop people parking on the corner.

The RA of which you are a member?

Smuggo

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

The RA of which you are a member?

I own a share as it comes as part of buying the house, as do some 130 other households.

bigjl

Smuggo wrote: »

I didn't really swerve, basically i came out as road was clear but car was coming down (quite fast) and became visible from behind the parked cars as I was coming round, I slowed to pretty much a stop and just pulled the nose left a bit and then crunch.

On reflection I totally didn't need to do so as I think there was enough room but you know it how it is, you just react to what is happening sometimes.

And yes as people keep pointing out I did know there is a bin around there but was not really thinking about that at the time as it seemed at that point like there was a chance another car could clip my driver side and as this thing is so low I couldn't see it.

Having looked at it I don't think it is a council bin either and is owned by the RA, though the place I used to live had green council grit bins (they had the council logo emblazoned on the lid) so you do get them.

Anyway, bodyshop guy coming tomorrow to give me a quote though he said from the photo I sent of the damage he doesn't think it'll be too hard to fix up which is good. Still gonna write the RA cause I don't think this thing should be there and is a hazard. If you put a skip in the road you need to have reflectors on it and lights (and it's massive and yellow) so I'd assume there are similar rules for anything else left in the road for exactly this kind of reason. Also there seems to be no reason other than trying to be thrifty for them to not just get some double yellows painted there to stop people parking on the corner.

If you were nearly stationary how could you hit both doors?

Too many inconsistencies to take this story seriously.

If it walks like a duck........

Smuggo

bigjl wrote: »

If you were nearly stationary how could you hit both doors?

Too many inconsistencies to take this story seriously.

If it walks like a duck........

It impacted where both doors join together hence both got damaged.

bigjl

Smuggo wrote: »

I own a share as it comes as part of buying the house, as do some 130 other households.

Why didn't you object to the positioning of the bin then???

Smuggo

bigjl wrote: »

Why didn't you object to the positioning of the bin then???

I'd never really thought about it before.

neilmcl

Smuggo wrote: »

It impacted where both doors join together hence both got damaged.

Can you post a photo of the damage?

Car_54

Smuggo wrote: »

Still gonna write the RA cause I don't think this thing should be there and is a hazard. If you put a skip in the road you need to have reflectors on it and lights (and it's massive and yellow) so I'd assume there are similar rules for anything else left in the road for exactly this kind of reason. Also there seems to be no reason other than trying to be thrifty for them to not just get some double yellows painted there to stop people parking on the corner.

If this is a public road then someone has committed an offence by putting the bin there, and the council should remove it.

If it's a private road, then the RA could indeed paint yellow lines, but what makes you think that yellow lines stop people parking?

Smuggo

Car_54 wrote: »

If this is a public road then someone has committed an offence by putting the bin there, and the council should remove it.

If it's a private road, then the RA could indeed paint yellow lines, but what makes you think that yellow lines stop people parking?

It's definitely a public road, I checked the listings on county council website.