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Potholes and new tyre

  • 14-04-2009 1:30pm
    #1
    whitelightrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

    Managed to hit a pot hole on Friday around the Athenry area and basically the tyre is frigged. Cost me €100 for a new tyre there.

    Is there someone you can contact in the council about this to claim the expense of the tyre? The road is in a state and I thank God I wasnt putting the boot down.


Comments

  • #2
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    As far as I remember unless its a pothole thats previously been repaired by the council and re-opened then you wont be entitled to anything ...but if the council did repair it before then you have a potential claim.


  • #3
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    Exact same thing happened to me about a year ago - also in the Galway area, and I successfully claimed off Galway Co. Council. I found it a very straightforward process, just a matter of finding out who to address correspondence to there (I just called them up and they pointed me in the right direction), and within a few weeks I had a cheque in the post.

    I think I posted on here in more detail about the experience around the time it happened (March/April last year) if you do a search, you'll find it!


  • #4
    tred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭tred


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    Exact same thing happened to me about a year ago - also in the Galway area, and I successfully claimed off Galway Co. Council. I found it a very straightforward process, just a matter of finding out who to address correspondence to there (I just called them up and they pointed me in the right direction), and within a few weeks I had a cheque in the post.

    I think I posted on here in more detail about the experience around the time it happened (March/April last year) if you do a search, you'll find it!

    you were lucky. I got an answer back, that they could not be held responsible due to "non Feasance" If you have proof they were notified about pot hole and didnt fix it..then u have a chance. then again, it was city council i applied too.....and the exact department etc.


  • #5
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    tred wrote: »
    you were lucky. I got an answer back, that they could not be held responsible due to "non Feasance" If you have proof they were notified about pot hole and didnt fix it..then u have a chance. then again, it was city council i applied too.....and the exact department etc.

    Yeah, maybe a bit of luck in it, but they didn't dispute my case whatsoever, I found it completely painless. One of their engineers called me up after I made the claim looking for directions to the pothole :pac: So instead of sending him down the back-roads, I offered to send him in a few photos I'd taken myself, he was delighted :pac:


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