Speed Hump!

Whereabouts? (Just so we all know to look out for it).

cheers, clive

Get a couple of photos of it before they paint it !

whatsoever.

Don't phone them. By now, they will have put up their umbrella, and will deny all knowledge of your phone call. Write to them, they have to log it in.

Tell them that your car has been damaged by the hump which was not marked or signed in any way, and that you hold them responsible. Get your car fixed and send them a copy of the bill. Keep the original.

Steve

That's no excuse. It is there for your safety and enjoyment of the road.

It was near Sea Pallings, Near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. I have a Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone , which has a 2 megapixel camera, so I got plenty of decent pictures ;) The main response from the coucil that I recieved was that ' a normal driver would have'..... After informing them of their patronising, incompetant attitude and that I drove emergency response vehicles for a living they informed me to let them know in writing.

Regards

UK speed bumps has to satisfy certain maximum height and slope criteria. You can find those on the internet somewhere. If these criteria are not met, you will have good grounds to sue the council. There was also a good article in Auto Express a while back.

send them the estimated bill plus photo's of the damage and the bump, use something universal as a reference to show the size of the hump and damaged areas of the car been there, done that wait till they get back to you go through one of the smalls claims no win no fee people when they do agree to pay you out there is a special fund set aside for this sort of thing but you have to contact the council who maintains that road surface

"Tony Bond (UncleFista)" writes

Yep! I hit a deep pothole in a busy A road in Manchester some time back, and a couple of weeks later during an MOT test they found a broken coil spring!

It happened in the dark, and by the time I got chance to look at the hole (no stopping road), they had filled it with tarmac. :-(

Presumably you were well over the posted speed limit?

that doesn't matter :) if it wasn't sign posted or marked in an obvious way they can be held liable trust me, i've done it a;; before with a result every time (albeit around 4 months from making the calim to getting it paid for)

Suppose it wouldn't matter if you'd run down some pedestrian expecting you to be doing roughly 30 in a 30 limit?

Most - while pressing on on country roads - pass a 30 sign in a village and then slow down, if indeed they bother to. So a speed hump just inside the signs makes a great deal of sense. They can't be argued with or ignored. And very few cars will be damaged by going over one at a true 30.

The Catalytic converter is vulnerable to speed humps. Wheel bearings is another concern. Damage may not be immediate, but the effect accumulates.

Nothing on a car like that is vulnerable to speed bumps. Anymore than any other hole etc in the road. It depends entirely at what speed you 'hit' the speed bump. Ie, the whole reason they are there.

Where the local authority is shown to be negligent in not maintaining roads, and leaving potholes, they can and are regularly sued for the damage they cause.

Hmmmm. The silencers on mine are vulnerable to the 'pillow' speed bumps at anything over ten miles per hour, and full-width raised tables don't half jar your spine when you're sat almost level with the rear suspension.

"Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Agreeing with the speed proviso, what about shock-absorbers, or to give them their correct functional name "dampers"? They take a hell of a pasting even at low speeds.

The (20mph) humps on our road were atrocious when first installed, the profile being too severe at any speed, but they have been shaved and smoothed at the leading edges, except for the one close to a T junction.

The ideal ones which I first encountered at Black Rocks, a country park area near Matlock, were designed for 5mph, and had sine-wave leading and lagging edges. At the design speed they were very gentle, but at about 15 mph they would throw your head against the roof!

When I did a real-world mathematics course with the OU we had to design a speedbump profile that had a sharp difference in effect between < design speed and > design speed.

One like you describe came out well, but is more expensive to lay than a blob of tarmac...

The best one I came up with was actuially an inverted speed bump - a speed ditch. Take it at the right speed, down and up again.

Too fast, you jump the gap, smash the front wheels into the opposite wall and rip the axle off ;-)

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Now that's neat!