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Anarchy-inc -

I have every sympathy with you, but I don't think there's much you can do regarding your incident, except perhaps to write a stiff letter to the council/your local Councillor/the local paper, pointing out this unnecessary hazard which the council have created.

To be a safe driver/rider one must make allowance for

There are, after all, a lot of them about (except on this website!).



I'm afraid you should. It's all very well being in the right, and having right of way, but as the old verse says:

"He was right, dead right, as he drove along,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong".

For "drove" read "rode", as appropriate.

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I'd say if an oncoming car forces you to swerve then they are negligent.

I can fully understand your anger at the council for creating this hazard but I think your claim should be against the car driver.


Don't get me wrong, I detest all road calming schemes, like where I live they introduced parking bays in front of a row of houses with drives that will take two or three cars!!!!!!!!!!!!

These bays are also fiished off with the deadly quadrant shaped pieces of kerb which if you are lucky have a post on them to warn you of their presence.

The result, a former decent road now requires more attention to drive on as all the traffic is squeezed into the remaining two thirds of the road width.

Just don't get me started on speed bumps.

If only they had stopped . . . .

Then you might still have a claim against the council for leaving loose gravel on the highway. I would contact a good solicitor.