Diesel!!

[Livefast123]

Taking the bike to it's MOT today I was riding along the A370 dual carriageway into Weston Super Mare when I noticed small puddles on the road. I kept well away as it looked like they wanted to kill me, anyway i come up to Airport roundabout and there is the mother of all diesel spills right across lane 1. Luckily I saw it well in advance and moved into lane 2.

I mean how much of a retard large vehicle / diesel car driver do you have to be to fill your tank up that much that it pisses out when your going straight and then pisses out everywhere when you go round the roundabout.

Phoned the council who seemed disinterested. I've had enough of the increasing menace of diesel. I think as bikers we should all right to our MP's and make a petition to make diesel vehicles be fitted with a tank level limiter or something simular.
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[CarlosCBR]

Most probably didnt have a filler cap on. Shame you couldnt find the lorry and report it.
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Yeh probs a lorry.

Those big tanks have vents in the cap so it pisses out.

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[mistergixer]

Bastard seems everywhere these days. Amazing really, considering he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

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[0l0dom0l0]

I'd have called 999 and reported it that way. It could cause a very nasty accident.

You've done the right thing though and if there is an accident (now you've reported it) the council have to pay for the damages. So bare that in mind if you ever come off on Diesel, call the police and if it's been reported you can claim all the damages back.
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[Willson]

I wish I'd done this... but then again didn't notice the Diesel spill till later on that day. Will still phone the council though.

Willson
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[Chriss]

[Livefast123]

I can understand that for the authorities to get to every spill it must be a nightmare especially with cost cutting etc and they could do without the hassle of compo claims for essentially somebody else being irresponsible.

It would be so much easier to stop the idiots overfilling their tanks with some sort of device...cue the inventors of BCF.
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[anthony_r6]

Same problem here, made a thread about it a couple of weeks ago. Everywhere in the road. I'm pretty confident it's the Binmen's truck that's causing it. It's everywhere, on every road, every side street, literally all over.

I get really paranoid about it too. Even if it's not affecting me, whenever I turn it kinda feels like my back end is going, I'm not sure if it really is though.

Also, I'm not sure how the compensation thing would work. It's kinda like potholes in a sense. They may have been reported, and people still damage their vehicles on them, but rarely anybody will get anything from the Council on it. The duty of care they have is quite a long time on potholes, I assume they'd have a get-out-of-stick free card on diesel too.
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[Easter Bunny]

I reported an oil spill on a minor road in bedford (it was actually the hire van I was driving) ...........picked up this hire van that had just been serviced and drove it about 8 miles stopped to see the last of the oil coming out of the sump.

Called the Highway department of the local council who were there in 15 minutes with kitty litter!
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[Easter Bunny]

I reported an oil spill on a minor road in bedford (it was actually the hire van I was driving) ...........picked up this hire van that had just been serviced and drove it about 8 miles stopped to see the last of the oil coming out of the sump.

Called the Highway department of the local council who were there in 15 minutes with kitty litter!
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[Paulington]

Hey,

To be honest I've had enough with the increasing amount of whining coming from a certain group of bikers about 'the dangers of diesel'.

You can ride through diesel. Unless you are cranked over a fair fair bit you can just ride through it, if I can do it so can other bikers. Being in contact with diesel for effectively a tenth of a second will not damage that part of your tyre either.

Not only that, but there are other things such as stone chips from the Council, objects in the road, flying objects hitting you, large puddles for hydroplaning and black ice which are just if not more dangerous and almost no-one mentions those.

From what I can see one biker complains about diesel, then another rider assumes it's a massive problem, avoids it forever on the road and then complains the next time they see a spot of it on the road.

As for the compensation, get out of the culture! If there is a hazard (diesel) in the road in front of you, and YOU decide to not avoid it and YOU decide to ride through it and YOU cannot keep the bike upright meaning YOU crash then there is NOTHING to claim for! You crashed in the circumstances, chin up and deal with it, don't be sucked in to the compensation culture, especially as you won't get a penny anyway.

Rant over, cheers!
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[MarJay]

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Paulington. You are speaking out of your bottom.

I've encountered diesel spills on the road that I struggled to walk on, let alone ride a bike on. One in-particular where a mobile crane shat it's fuel tank over a half mile stretch of road in York I landed up getting off the bike and pushing it along the pavement.

Yes, you get an occasional drip which spreads out into a rainbow when it rains that you needn't worry about unduly but any reasonable quantity and you may as well be riding on black ice.

If I spilled a load of ball bearings on the road and you failed to avoid them and crashed, would it be your fault or mine?
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Lol at paulington, what complete utter shite you spout.


Diesel is extremely slippery, I have walked over a massive spill at a petrol forecourt before, (turns out a car had it's tank drilled, owner noticed the empty tank and filled it up only for it to spill straight back out again). Walking through that shit was on par with walking on sheet ice.


If a diesel spill causes an accident the person who caused it should be held accountable.

Not to mention the affect that spilt fuel has on the tarmac, it acts as a solvent for the tar dissolving it and loosening the road surface, this gets mashed about by tyres and freezing water making potholes. The round about near my local petrol station is littered with holes for this very reason.

[shereen]

What everyone else has said basically!

I went to fill up the other day and nearly dropped the bike when putting it on the side stand because of fuels spills on the forecourt! My foot just slid right out from under me. I certainly wouldnt want to ride through it
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[duhawkz]

I fully concer with marjay et al,

when I doing my training for my DAS I rode over a river of diesel that some kind sole had spilled going up a hill, i nearly lost the back end as it slid out from under me and was only going slowly, i can tell you now it was only luck that the bike stayed upright and i nearly gobbled the seat up through my arse hole.

OP. i would call the po lice next time you encounter a bad spill rather than the council/HA. I rang them when i came across a half mile spill on the way to work one morning that some nob had left down a main road. luckily it was more at the side of the road in the gutter but it was so bad you could smell it in air as you turned on to the road
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