Highways Agency billing after an accident

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Hi

Highways Agency sending a guy a bill for signs, etc, after his accident.

https://tinyurl.com/nmtbk9

Not sure the whole story is there (his 3rd party insurance should cover it as the council are a 3rd party), but it appears that possibly costs were already taken into account in court to cover these expenses.

All the best

Keith
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[Kwaks]

Article says his insurance won't pay it, strange...


Got to wonder where the council tax goes & road tax & vat on fuel, vat on new vehicles etc etc when people have to also pay for the aftermath of an accident. I would expect a council to set their taxes based on their expected costs, so does monies recovered in this way go towards their xmas fund?
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[Bikeless]

I thought they always billed you for road furniture,i've paid for a lampost in the past.

[Bofh5]

Did you read the comment about how reckless motorcyclists are and how they should all be rounded up and shot !

Pr1ck what about all the cars / vans / buses that leak considerable amounts of shite onto the road they don't get charged to clean it up.
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[Barry_M2]

Maybe we should all start charging the Highways Agency for damage to our vehicles because of the poorly maintained roads!


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[Bofh5]

Too bl00dy right the roads are quickly becoming death traps with pot holes cracks and knackered surfaces.

So when some poor sod crashes due to a pot hole will they get charged for the signs warning of the pot hole....
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Unfortuantely lots of local authorities are starting to see having loads of potholes as a cheaper form of traffic calming.
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[Skudd]

Speed humps cost me fuel, take the tracking out on the car causing tyre wear and could cause an accident. If I was to have an accident the council would then charge me for costs.
Get rid of speed humps and pot holes and we are all quids in.
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[Skudd]

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i went over a MASSIVE hole in the road last week (in the car thankfully) and got a puncture...maybe i should sent the council the bill...

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[Mr Hammers]

I paid, or rather my company paid, or rather my company's insurance paid...over £4000 when I decided to drive into the central reservation on the M40 a few years ago.

Can't remember exactly, but it was something like £2000 for the damage (one section of armco!), £1000 for the HA to block off the motorway while they extracted the van, and another £1000 for something else... I think it was disruption or something.

After that, I couldn't help thinking this policy should be rolled out to all crimes. For instance, some drunken vandal smashes a phone box, gets arrested, goes to court, (and for argument's sake) goes to prison.

When he's out and working, forcibly extracted from his wages should be the cost to repair the box, the cost of the police's time, the cost of his incarceration at both the cop shop and prison.

I'm pretty sure that once word got round that smashing a phone box up is going to cost you thousands of pounds, there'll be more vandals thinking before they...er...vandal.

It really annoys me when you watch people getting nicked for certain things, like having an accident when drunk, and it's my taxes that pay for them to be nicked.

They're doing the crime...how about THEY pay for it all!
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[ashwell-09]

I saw on 5th gear....(yes i'm that cool) about claiming compensation for potholes damaging vehicles, there are certain measurements the pothole has to meet in order to claim damage costs, thats all i know about it but you should be able to find out more.
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[stinkwheel]

I know of one instance where this policy has turned out to be unexpectedly useful.

Mates brother lost control of his car in a corner, skidded and rolled it into a field. Wrote the car off.

He insisted there was something wrong with the road surface that had made him skid, the police insisted he was driving like a lunatic and charged him with driving without due care.

Next news a bill arrived from the council charging him £300 for cleaning up the diesel spilled on the road from his crash. His car was petrol. He took this letter with him to court and was aquitted.
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