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ESB poles in the road

  • 25-01-2012 8:36pm
    #1
    ratracer
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    Hi there,

    With planning applications for a house in a rural area, the site developer is obliged to move the boundary wall back in approx 1m from the road, presumably to give safer access/egress from the new building. However if a utility pole is along the wall, it is usually left in it's original position now stuck out in the roadway.

    Recently her indoors crashed the car not into the pole, but the stay wire that supports it. The view of the wire was obscured by strong winter sun. The result was €2300 worth of damage to the motor and good bye no claims bonus. Is anyone liable here for leaving the road in an unsafe condition? Are the council liable? how about the householder? Or do i just have to suck it up and pay over the already crazy odds for insurance at renewal time?


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  • #2
    Marcusm
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    Hard to see how they'd be liable for someone driving into a pole they already knew was there or am I wrong in thinking that this is at your own driveway/entrance?


  • #3
    ratracer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭ratracer


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Hard to see how they'd be liable for someone driving into a pole they already knew was there or am I wrong in thinking that this is at your own driveway/entrance?
    No it wasn't our own drive, I had a similar pole moved because I felt it was a danger on the road. It was a house she wasn't familiar with


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