verytalldave
MB Enthusiast
This is just my own personal opinion and may therefore be completely flawed.
My understanding is that local councils have a duty in law to maintain roads fit for purpose.
Which in my interpretation is to keep them maintained so that in normal use driving a vehicle at the roads speed limit, damage would not, or is unlikely to be damaged by the surface of the road.
This is why councils are keen to repair pot-holes fairly quickly. Drive your car down a pot-hole, damage your car and the council could be liable to pay you compensation.
Road humps, pillows or whatever you like to call them are often so fierce that driving over them at 30mph will damage your car badly.
I have therefore come to my own opinion that councils should be liable for damage if you drive over these at, or just below the roads speed limit.
I am all for enforcement of speed limits, but I now feel speed humps have now become SO widespread AND fierce that councils are now breaking the law. If not actually, then in spirit.
Some humps are so fierce that you have to reduce speed to below 10mph to avoid possible damage.
I think the fierceness of humps must be made so that they can be negotiated at the roads speeds limit without the possibility of incurring damage to your vehicle.
Rant over.
My understanding is that local councils have a duty in law to maintain roads fit for purpose.
Which in my interpretation is to keep them maintained so that in normal use driving a vehicle at the roads speed limit, damage would not, or is unlikely to be damaged by the surface of the road.
This is why councils are keen to repair pot-holes fairly quickly. Drive your car down a pot-hole, damage your car and the council could be liable to pay you compensation.
Road humps, pillows or whatever you like to call them are often so fierce that driving over them at 30mph will damage your car badly.
I have therefore come to my own opinion that councils should be liable for damage if you drive over these at, or just below the roads speed limit.
I am all for enforcement of speed limits, but I now feel speed humps have now become SO widespread AND fierce that councils are now breaking the law. If not actually, then in spirit.
Some humps are so fierce that you have to reduce speed to below 10mph to avoid possible damage.
I think the fierceness of humps must be made so that they can be negotiated at the roads speeds limit without the possibility of incurring damage to your vehicle.
Rant over.