Hit pallet on m1

garycoyle1

Hi my wife hit a pallet on the m1 northbound just before the lusk petrol station it made ****e of the front bumper and grill!! There was a van drove over it and she didn't see it till it was too late has she any comeback of the motorway maintenance or is it a chunk out of the holiday fund

Tea drinker

Take it from her portion of the holiday fund! Ring the motorway crowd and let them know there's a pallet on the road and what happened.
They'll have a record of your call then too.

LeChienMefiant

I suppose it would depend how long the pallet was there, whether the maintenance crew should have removed it. Alternatively, the haulier etc. may be liable for not securing load, might be worth chasing that line of enquiry.

Vic_08

If the former owner of the pallet could be found then you would have a claim against them/their insurance. Unlikely to be able to trace the vehicle it came off though.

Worth talking to the Mway maintenance and Garda traffic and see if they had any report of objects dropping off a vehicle, someone may have reported the reg.

You would only have a claim against the maintenance company if the pallet had been reported to them previously and they had not done anything about it in a reasonable time.

LeChienMefiant

If motorway services retrieved the pallet, then they might know where it came from.

ShaunieVW

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

If motorway services retrieved the pallet, then they might know where it came from.

Highly doubt it, pallets are not usually branded, just has its type on the side. Any kind of branding will likely be from the pallet manufacturer not the haulier.

savagethegoat

Many pallets are rented, especially the blue ones. It wont be the rental companies responsibility... I think you're going to have to suck it up. Sorry for your pain, happened to me once too

Gone Drinking

Could have been worse, at least she didn't swerve dangerously late to avoid it.

I was driving to the airport one morning, around 4am. Myself and the car in front doing 100 odd, in the left lane, decent space between us.

Saw the car in front swerve right to avoid a road cone that was lying on its side in the lane. The black heavy part of it was missing, so it had probably blown on.

Car in front swerved right, then lost control, having to swerve back left, then right again into the middle concrete barrier.

I braked and hit the cone, it got stuck under my car, so I pulled in and removed it. Thankfully the people were unhurt in the other car, just left shaken with a badly damaged car.

BohsCeltic

There was a large section from an exhaust on the M50 a week or two ago, i'm guessing it came off the back of a lorry as there was no vehicle in the hard shoulder.

ted1

savagethegoat wrote: »

Many pallets are rented, especially the blue ones. It wont be the rental companies responsibility... I think you're going to have to suck it up. Sorry for your pain, happened to me once too

I wouldn't agree with that. As the owner they would be liable, they in turn would take it up with the renter, it's their loss if they don't have a record of what pallet is gone to who

Vic_08

ted1 wrote: »

I wouldn't agree with that. As the owner they would be liable, they in turn would take it up with the renter, it's their loss if they don't have a record of what pallet is gone to who

Utter nonsense.

R.O.R

BohsCeltic wrote: »

There was a large section from an exhaust on the M50 a week or two ago, i'm guessing it came off the back of a lorry as there was no vehicle in the hard shoulder.

Northbound just after the Toll, around 6 ish? If so, came off a Nordy Pug 306 that was about 100 yards in front of me when the exhaust finally detached.

punisher5112

I was on m50 heading south a few months back when in the distance I could see an object lay in the outer overtaking lane along the point of tallaght exit.

When I was trying to get into lane 2 and trying to warn cars behind 1. The car in lane 2 tried to block me getting over by speeding up 2 . The Peugeot estate wasn't so lucky behind they went straight into the mattress and ended up badly stuck on top of it.

I rang 999 straight away to report it as they could have been killed with all those dozy drivers out there like themselves because they were right up my ass they hadn't a chance.

You could literally find anything dumped or lost off a vehicle on the roads.

BohsCeltic

R.O.R wrote: »

Northbound just after the Toll, around 6 ish? If so, came off a Nordy Pug 306 that was about 100 yards in front of me when the exhaust finally detached.

Yep that's the one, never seen the car though. Must check my dashcam.

Thought it was bigger than that in fairness