Pot hole and puncture..grrr..

lindens

surfcat wrote: »

So first it was a 'lane' where there may or may not be oncoming traffic, and now its a dual carriageway?

If I were you I would put it down to experience, and remember to report things to the council when you notice them in future, instead of trying to increase everyone's council tax by blaming them for your mistake.

a pothole in their road is not my mistake is it? i pay road tax which is meant to keep the roads in good repair.
it was possibly a mistake not reporting it but i am not the only person who uses that road

Crabman

surfcat wrote: »

If I were you I would put it down to experience, and remember to report things to the council when you notice them in future, instead of trying to increase everyone's council tax by blaming them for your mistake.

How is it the OP's mistake?

The council rake taxes in and among their duties are regular inspections of their highways - if they have failed to carry this out then it's their fault, not the OP's

vikingaero

surfcat wrote: »

So first it was a 'lane' where there may or may not be oncoming traffic, and now its a dual carriageway?

If I were you I would put it down to experience, and remember to report things to the council when you notice them in future, instead of trying to increase everyone's council tax by blaming them for your mistake.

Quite clearly the OP was guilty of driving a motor vehicle aka a car, which they paid for, insured, taxed and maintained at her own expense. The OP quite clearly drove her vehicle on a public road contrary to her lesbian-left-wing Councils policies on personal transportation. Not only has she polluted the five-a-day co-ordinators personal airspace with her noxious emissions and was the the position to kill at least 500 fluffy rabbits, countless children and disadvantaged people. But the biggest crime was that her act of driving was not racially and socially inclusive.................... la de la de flipping da. :rolleyes::p

needaspirin

Last week I was driving along my local lane and noticed a large hole surrounded by barriers. The following day I drove down again and the hole had gone!!!

Some people will steal anything

Blacksheep1979

I've had similar - you have to prove the council knew about the pothole and did nothign about it. Maybe you should have reported it

superscaper

A friend of broke his wheels completely on potholes that were really bad (practically trenches). He managed to obtain info from the council that it had indeed been reported previously but their lawyers were dragging their feet over it. I think they were basically saying they were going to repair it and he should have just avoided the potholes. In the end he sent the council lawyers a 4 page physics proof that it was impossible in that light, angle and resolution of human eye to have seen and therefore avoided the pothole. The lawyers phoned him up straight away and offered the full repair costs (which ran to well over a grand). Pity it takes so much to make them pay up and for my friend it was lucky he was a physics student at the time.

Fuzzy_2

I ran into a pot hole last year (alloy wheel and tyre damaged - both needed replacing), got all the claim forms from the council. They asked about my insurance details; decided not to proceed, as they would no doubt have contacted my insurers to check, and then would have had a "notch" on my insurance record, and an increased premium as a result. Heard also from one of their surveyors who said they rarely paid out on potholes on the side of the road, so I didn't bother to claim, put it down to experience! Not good I know, but my insurance record is clean, and has been for over a decade.

At least they did fill in the hole, so it wouldn't happen again!

Pennylane

Happened to me a few years back and I was told what "Smartestmanalive" said. If it has been reported and they have done nothing about it then you can challenge them. I don't know though how honest they have to be - are they likey to admit that people have already reported a particular hole?

superscaper

Pennylane wrote: »

Happened to me a few years back and I was told what "Smartestmanalive" said. If it has been reported and they have done nothing about it then you can challenge them. I don't know though how honest they have to be - are they likey to admit that people have already reported a particular hole?

Don't know what the practicalities are or whether you have to claim the info under the data protection act. I know when my friend got hold of the other complaint and reports from the council. The council had blackmarked out the identities and contact details of the other complainers. But thankfully for council competance they'd literally posted photocopies and physically used a marker pen. So hold it up to the light and you could still read it. My friend was then able to phone those people and get more info directly from them about when they notified the council and what damage they'd received etc.