help needed, oil spillage

[houlsby]

hi, ive just binned my bike going round a corner at 20mph, there was oil on the road and i felt the tyre sidestep out then wash out, im really pissed off as if i cant claim even tho the crash was a small lowside, the bike has over £1000 worth of damage includin fork legs, fairings, frame slightly bent, exhaust badly gashed, swinging arm is ground up by the road. im only covered 3rd party fire n theft, and like i say taking a 60 mph corner doing 20mph it washed out. is there anything i can do about this i.e claim off someone. as the council had to come out and cleam the road of petrol from my bike and oil from the spillage. just after id gone down a 4x4 came skidding down the road nearly hitting me, and stopped just in time. i got there number and details ect and asked if it was ok to contact them. will this help me at all?

cheers, a really fuked off houlsby

[White Noise]

sorry to say that i don't know anything that can help you, but just wanted to say that i hope you do get your bike sorted and hopefully the council will pay up, especially as you have a witness, though i have to say it sounds unlikely that they will as they will say something like, "we weren't alerted there was a problem at that particular piece of road"
have you tried the spills kills website, may have some info there
WN
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[strag]

As WN mentioned, check whether the spill was reported, if it was you're in with a chance. A good reason for us ALL to report spills.
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[TOM M]

its very doubtful that you will be able to claim / or get the council to pay up
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[Josh|RD125LC]

That sucks man.

Luckily I haven't had any problems with oil spillages so far, so from now on I better take extra care. Hope it all works out ok for you mate.
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[Keith]

Thats pretty crap, but glad you're ok. Real shame when you were looking to sell the bike.

I have some parts from my RS which I've been stripping today, lights, fairings etc which may help you, but obviously, the frame and swinger are the biggies. Are you sure the frame is bent and not one of the subframes?

Not sure if you'd be able to claim in any way, but I'd certainly report it to the council. Even if you cant get anything from them, they might prevent others from being in the same situation.
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[True Blue]

I take it all your clothing is cream crackered? Try claiming the cost of all your clothing from your house insurance.
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[kawakid]

I think we all need to get together and get some sort of national number we can report spillages too.

I phoned the local council once and they put me through to a department.

But some central telephone service, maybe an 0870 number so it costs only a few pence, but can fund someone nationaly to handle the calls and then pass it on to the relevant local authority.

Something needs to be done.

Perhaps we could have portable warning triangles indicating oil/diesel. So we could put down and warn other riders/drivers.

Surely this must be something bike insurers could be in favour of also.

Perhaps we could start, by compilling a list of all telephone numbers across all Towns/Regions etc.

Any ideas??
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[Davo]

When R4gner binned his bike last saturday, I just called the police non emergency number, they informed the highways agency for us.

[strag]

if you see a spill, call the police, they sort it.
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[jimster]

You might be able to claim from the Motor Insurer's Bureau, as you can claim the accident was caused by the vehicle which negligently spilled the oil, and therefore it is an untraceable vehicle claim.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=uninsured+accident+motor+insurers+bureau&meta=

There are loads of companies which deal with this kind of thing. Give one of them a ring.
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[Black Knight]

Sorry to hear about your spill mate. hope you're not too sore. You've got my number give me a ring - may be able to help you with your bike.
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[DazBike]

Hi houlsby

Ive emailed you with a contact that might be able to help you. Our legel man Andrew Campbell will be able to advise you as to what you can do.

For anyone else who's intrested his contact details can be found here. > https://darrenbourne.co.uk/killspills/html/legal_advice.html

thanks

Daz Bourne
KillSpills
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[houlsby]

cheers guys an girls for all ur help, i dont think i can afford to claim as it will rocket my insurance up, i have been informed by the farther that i need new forks and yokes as they are squashed banana shape. so..... all in all the worste weekend of my life is now over!!!