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Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

This car was (still is) always parked on the wide pavement that runs down our road - its just a few yards from our house too and my wife heard the crash :'(

Not a nice sight Crying or Very sad

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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Poor bloke..what a shame.Wonder what he will do now. If it was me I would be gutted. Sad

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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:49 am Post subject:

Nasty.

I wouldn't have thought the lamp post should go over like that, in those circumstances - maybe it's rotten at the base, in which case he could have a claim against the council. Not that it's any consolation, even if the car is fixable it's only right once Sad

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I hope they find the guy in the Peugeot he must have known what he'd done.
Hopefully the car can be sorted,the owners pride in his car might be the hardest thing to restore.
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Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

The police attended and got the driver - a car full of "youths" - perhaps a stolen?

As to lampost it was concrete over 40 years old but they do not bend or rot like modern steel columns which are not mounted on edge of pavements either these days

Ironically lampost made at Stanton & Staveley Steel works and spun pipes in iron and concrete now long gone but a major employer of 1000's then and only 2 miles away.

Might have been less damage if Peueut had just run into the back of the car rather than the lampost

Morel - do not park near lamposts Rolling Eyes

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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

michael1703 · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 349 Location: suffolk

the council will come round, not to inspect the lamp but to pursue his wife and neighbour for business rates for working from home

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Surely not if you are just fixing your own car.
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baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I think he meant the embroidery business.
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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4276 Location: South Cheshire

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

I would have thought if he's parked on the pavement he's breaking the law.
I thought If your breaking the law the insurance is nul and void.

michael1703 · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 349 Location: suffolk

More likely he will lose a lot out of this,probably insured it saying he bought it off a mate for £500 and didn't mention the updates to get a cheap policy (who hasn't?).

Could possibly claim off the council by claiming the light wasn't structurally sound as it fell to earth after a ding which might not have been too much of an impact if the other car managed to drive away.

Journer · Joined: 28 May 2012 Posts: 115 Location: Glasgow

Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

Fortunately neither the Borough or County Council are interfering ones - hence parking on the pavement!

The lamp post will be replaced in due course with a new steel column set well back from pavement edge too
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gresham flyer · Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 1435

It is not a criminal offence to drive on a public footpath.
What is that you say.!!!

I had a meeting with my local councilors,council engineers,council legal team etc etc.
The problem was people concreting over their gardens and driving over the grass verges ,over the footpath onto their new drives.
The lovely old grass verges near the old village pond were getting into a right ol state and i thought I had better put on my Victor Meldrew hat and sort it out.

The only way around the matter is to put down double yellow lines outside the offenders houses.Then the legal team have a little power,but admitted that there was no money in the kitty to take the offenders to court.
They have since carried out shrub planting and put down open paving so the grass grows through at my badgering of them.

The thing is it took many years to get this done,so offenders know they can get away with things for a long time.

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