Council Wheelie Bin damaged my car

flaneurs_lobster

ukbaz said:

This only occurs at speeds of between 25 and 32 MPH in my vehicle so I could not have been going to fast could I? Incidentally there is an apostrophe in couldn't! 

Incidentally, that's "too fast" rather than "to".

bazdvd

so you were still going at least 25mph when you hit the bin. Surely you had already started breaking by then.

user1977

On what basis do you think the council were responsible?

ukbaz

bazdvd said:

so you were still going at least 25mph when you hit the bin. Surely you had already started breaking by then.

I give up!!

ukbaz

user1977 said:

On what basis do you think the council were responsible?

I drive this road at least twice a week and have been for several years. It is Council Policy that the bins should be kept within the property bounds unless it is collection day. They have powers to enforce this by fining households, and can supply gull proof sacks where the area is unsuitable for wheelie bins. I'd suggest that failure to enforce their own policy and allow bins to be left out permanently for years would render them at least partly responsible.

user1977

ukbaz said:

user1977 said:

On what basis do you think the council were responsible?

I drive this road at least twice a week and have been for several years. It is Council Policy that the bins should be kept within the property bounds unless it is collection day. They have powers to enforce this by fining households, and can supply gull proof sacks where the area is unsuitable for wheelie bins. I'd suggest that failure to enforce their own policy and allow bins to be left out permanently for years would render them at least partly responsible.

I'd suggest that's incredibly tenuous and if anyone is liable it's the householder whose bin it was. There's no principle that the council is responsible for the location of every bin at any given time.

TELLIT01

As has been said previously, it's just fortunate that it was a child rather than a bin.  It seems the OP is more concerned about their car not being hit by another than any other aspect of the situation.

This seems to be a classic case of the OP not getting the answer they wanted so name calling everybody who disagrees.

Ayr_Rage

Your topic title's incorrect, you ran into the bin with the front of your car, if it had hit the side then........

Driving on a familiar road lined with bins in a storm.

Didn't brake hard enough, if you've got pedestrian collision mitigation no doubt you have ABS, should've hit the pedal as hard as possible.

Didn't see much of an effort to stop quickly on the video Barry.

XRS200

I think this thread should be binned.

ukbaz

Last and final comment - if anyone cares to look at the dashcam timecode best case scenario I pass the side street at 09:48:04 Bin moves into road @ 09:48:05 car bonnet jacks up from hitting it at 09:48:06. So 2 seconds elapsed from time of it visibly moving and it hitting my vehicle. If anyone on here thinks they can stop a car going downhill on a very wet road safely I think they have a very over confident view of their driving ability and stopping power. From IAM Bristol website.. https://www.iam-bristol.org.uk/index.php/articles/driving-tips/673-stopping-distances-and-drivers-response-time "A recent study by the road safety organisation BRAKE, in collaboration with the Traffic Research Laboratory, showed that the average driver’s reaction time is in fact around 1.5 seconds – close on two and a quarter times The Highway Code’s baseline." so half a second to physically stop??? They also give a revised stopping distance based on real scenarios rather than the Highway Code of 34 metres, not on a wet road. Try it on a wet road, windscreen wipers on, downhill in heavy rain and you may alter your views somewhat! Feel free to bin the thread now!