Question about drinving in ireland

User45701

If your driving along and something happends you hit a pot hole or a cavity block in the middle of the road or what have you. Lets stick with a big pot hole and your wheel or axel or suspension or alloy or rim or whatever the car part is called is destroyed or damaged will the county coucil or the goverment pay for it? The way i see it you pay taxes for roads and police ect. Why should you have to shell out more cash beccause the goverent is not spendin its alowence correctly.

I dont drive myself just a a question. One of by mates wheels is buckled or something like that

SV

You'll be lucky if you get anything out of them.


Road tax...pft. and for what? Crap roads.

L1011

If you can prove the pothole, etc, is the cause of a poor repair you can claim. If it was never repaired I believe not.

However, 'blood' and 'stone' come to mind as goes the claims process.

Potential-Monke

I wankered my wheel and axle on a bit of metal sticking out of the road. Immediately took pictures (always ahve a disposable in the car) of the metal bit and the hole in my wheel, and had evey intention of claiming (thats what road tax is paid for, non?).

Then someone talked me out of it, claiming that you probably won't get anything and if you do it'll take years. So i didn't bother. Then i heard the same thing happened to someone else a couple of months later, and claimed and got €10,000. Then the metal thingy suddenly disappeared... Typical...

My advice? Try it.

Atomic Pineapple

yeh definately claim back if something damages your car due to the state of the road.

a couple of years back i had two tyres destroyed because of a massive pothole, took pictures of the tyre damage and of the pothole with a measurement tape showing its depth and size and claimed off the council, took 3 months

User45701

Thats great, Thanks for the quick replys all i need to do now is get case reports or some sort of reference to previous cases so i can reference back saying they have awarded claimed for wheel damage before.

well we pay our road taxes for roads yet they still double charge us with tolls so its not surprising that if we hit a hole we end up paying for it ourselves

whizzbangmcgui

I heard a discussion on radio about this.

I'm pretty sure the procedure is to call the Gardai, as you would in any accident that may involve a claim. That way, you have the official proof required, and the County / Town Council will pay up.

I know if it ever happens to me, I will call them out.

Seth Brundle

This was discussed recently.
The local authority are liable if either the road was previously repaired to an unsatisfactory level or if they were notified about the obstacle/pothole/.etc. and failed to act.

Gumbo

i have successfully claimed from dublin city council twice in the last 4 years over damage caused from a pot hole.

received payment for a new tyre and brand new alloy wheel as the pothole caused blowouts and cracked the wheel on both occasions!

Atomic Pineapple

kbannon wrote: »

This was discussed recently.
The local authority are liable if either the road was previously repaired to an unsatisfactory level or if they were notified about the obstacle/pothole/.etc. and failed to act.

yeh the council had been notified about the pothole and failed to act in my case

IFY

I have an idea - Road Tax Voucher from councils as payment for claims.

And why not make exact instruction for everyone, like CLAIM FORM NNN, just enter your name , car reg, print it and ready to sent to list of addresses of councils. Also will help the expertence of cases from solicitors or. Like according to article NNN of ISB or something. in order to beat all excuses from councils.

Alanstrainor

Please read the charter before posting. And don't drag up old threads.

Thanks,

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