MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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My commute involves driving along a narrow ish country road that last summer was surface dressed.
Now after a little bit of winter the surface is all lifting. Cars drive down the road at speeds of 50-70 mph.
A couple of weeks back a lorry going the opposite direction flicked a stone chip up that nearly came through the windscreen. The windscreen had to be replaced.
Now driving home again tonight a car again coming the direction has flicked up a stone. This time it is only a small chip, but its already growing in size!
I am trying to get on North Yorkshire Highways site to report it. However what are
a: The chances of them actually doing anything about the road
b: Me being able to claim off them?
Ta
Not a chance imho.
Hope you have the lorry's reg....and even then I hope you have video evidence.
If the surface is that bad I'd be going a different way
Surface dressing is the work of the devil
No chance ..potholes are a different matter with photo evidence if you do a tyre ..
Driver chips windscreen tries claiming of the bottomless pit of council funding, and council insurer says prove it was our fault.
How are you going to do that. No evidence, eg stone to show them etc.
A small stone chip can be repaired for pennies. Don't leave it until it grows.
Gav from Autoglass will sort it.
Why don’t you spend a tenner to get it fixed rather than waste time with that question?
I don't think you would stand much of a chance with that - even with potholes it is getting much more difficult - having to prove the council knew about it for x days/weeks and not doing anything about it.
I have had two cracked windscreens, both on the A1 near Wetherby, both in Audi A6s. Never had a cracked windscreen before or since (32 years of driving). I put it down to bad luck/the design of the particular car that meant small stones were thrown at the windscreen rather than around it.
Let me know how you get on then I might claim as well.
My son might also give it a go, & the bloke next door & him over the road, not forgetting my mate round the corner & his brother.
NFC!
Morally wrong and a really lousy thing to do . But go for it if you want.
^^
Blimey. Little harsh ?
Gav from Autoglass will sort it
By filling the OPs crack with his special resin?
Thinly adundant council funds pilfered by tight STW member, said the Daily Express...
By filling the OPs crack with his special resin?
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A couple of weeks back a lorry going the opposite direction flicked a stone chip up
Thank god you had a windscreen.
You are about to ask a bunch of Yoikshire blokes for some cash?
Yeah, good luck with that.
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2 hopes..
ones Bob the others No
The words blood and stone come to mind
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Counts as a claim with most insurance companies though.
I’ve news for you, there’s no money.
Budgets are getting/have been slashed. It’s ‘austerity’ innit. Continual strangulation of funds/grants by ‘efficiency savings’ and extension of statutory services...
And it’s all going to get much worse.
At some point councils are going to have to admit that they can’t deliver their all their expected services because they just haven’t the cash...
No hope. About 2 months ago I was on M62 and saw something flip up from the back of a lorry and come spinning at me. I ducked as half a brick came smashing into the windscreen. New windscreen, carry on, life on the roads etc. etc.
I got our council to agree to pay for ours once when we were peppered by a grass cutter trying to strim gravel by the side of the road.
In the ops situation though it sounds like it would be difficult. You’d have to prove that the gravel was actually from the dressing and not a random stone.
I think I’d just be getting it repaired, and I’m tighter than most.