Claiming for dreaded pot hole damage.

[myglaren]

[Stickyfinger]

https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver- ... almesbury/

[Gibbo2286]

https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver- ... almesbury/

Seems to be a hell of a lot of damage, I wonder what speed she was travelling at.

[mickthemaverick]

Two bulky vehicles both doing just 30 gives the equivalent damage to driving into a brick wall at 60!! A lot of momentum to be dispersed and with crash zones as they are the extent of the damage is not really surprising. The important thing is that neither driver was hurt!!

[bobins]

Last year a chap driving a Porsche near here died after it was reported he'd hit a pothole and crashed into oncoming vehicles and ended up in a hedge. It transpired that he'd unfortunately had a heart attack and that had caused the crash, but miraculously Highways were straight out to fix the bits of missing road at the scene of the crash and the longstanding bad potholes got filled in. Potholes ???? No potholes here now Sir, nothing to see here.

[Huskyxantia]

https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/driver- ... almesbury/

did you see that buckled wheel ! Holy crap , I was doing 30 as it was in a built up part then going into a 40 then it builds up to the national speed limit , so if I'd of been doing 60 , I might not be here typing this

[Huskyxantia]

I say pot hole , some are like craters, once saw the Mars rover driving out of one a few weeks back

[Gibbo2286]

Two bulky vehicles both doing just 30 gives the equivalent damage to driving into a brick wall at 60!! A lot of momentum to be dispersed and with crash zones as they are the extent of the damage is not really surprising. The important thing is that neither driver was hurt!!

I was referring to the wheel and suspension damage Mick not the resultant body damage,

I told the story before of my brother with his Bedford CA camper, someone had pinched a manhole cover and he hit it in the dark, ripped off his front wheel, damage was similar to that in this story, I would think that to do that damage with a pothole you'd need to be going pretty fast.

[bobins]

If the pothole in question is the one in front of the ambulance in the photo, then I don't think the van could have been going at stupid speed as it would have gone through the hedge and ended up in the farmer's field !

[Stickyfinger]

Well I put a 3 inch deep indentation into an Activa Alloy wheel hitting a pallet at about 50 (ish), which is about the same as going into a pot hole 4 inches deep.

the "hit" was very hard and I can see if it was at an angle to the wheel much more damage could be done, esp to a more light weight suspension system on newer cars...

[Huskyxantia]

Drove past the pot hole yesterday it's even bigger now , seeing various cars behind me shuddering as the were hitting it , 5 miles further up the road , not so many cars behind me for some reason other than turning off this road as you can't for a far way in both directions. Looks like more claims will be submitted. This hole has a face now over 9 inches deep. Now that's very dangerous & alarming

[Huskyxantia]

Last year a chap driving a Porsche near here died after it was reported he'd hit a pothole and crashed into oncoming vehicles and ended up in a hedge. It transpired that he'd unfortunately had a heart attack and that had caused the crash, but miraculously Highways were straight out to fix the bits of missing road at the scene of the crash and the longstanding bad potholes got filled in. Potholes ???? No potholes here now Sir, nothing to see here.

The actions of the authority there need to hang there heads in shame , ive just read this to my wife & she was shocked, as for me , yes me too but what local powers do to cover things up , don't surprise me in the slightest, here's an example , my father god rest his soul, had a bad fall 20 yr ago due to a very badly damaged footpath not to far from where he lived , he had to be helped back up & sat on a near by wall as an ambulance had to be called it turned out he broke his ankle & badly bruised his leg & lower back, the hospital told him to claim of the council for what had happend , we took photos of dads injuries plus the pavement , the day after this happend to my dad , the footpath was resurfaced with lovely new tarmac, a week after the claim was submitted, my father received a letter from the council stating there was insufficient evidence regarding his claim & the path was all new, he lost his claim, he went to a local news paper they took the story on went to get the councils side of the story 2 days later my dad got a letter with a cheque for £350 compensation & the newspaper was asked not to print the story , dad got a call later that day from the local paper & they said we have been told you have received compensation would you like to drop the story , my dad at this point had just about enough with how long things took so he took the compensation & thanked the paper for there intervention, funny how things turn out isn't it.

[myglaren]

Bribery!
The newspaper could have made much more of that.

[Huskyxantia]

True , but at the time my dad was going through a loss of a brother too & everything was just up in the air , he'd had enough to be honest , never seen my old dad sit and stare at a cheque with a look of complete emptiness. I recall he looked at me and he said , there all ars***les... then ripped it up