Car park incident - Claim against the company?

mattyprice4004 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:18

Headed into work as usual, and pulled into the little sliproad off the main road that leads to the car park.

This is about 20m of straight road, then a 90 degree corner that then leads into the car park. Anyway, I pull into this and slow down to the 5mph (As I know the material is horrific - it's like the tarmac is permanently covered in black ice!)

Anyway, it was slightly damp and instead of turning, the car went straight on

I locked the brakes, to no avail. Ploughed straight into the kerb, damaging my driver's side front steel wheel and tyre.

Obviously this wasn't my fault, I have the owner's number and will be ringing tomorrow. What a disgrace!

Anyone have any idea what the outcome might be? I know it's happened to lots of people before, as the marks on the kerbstones show.

You can clearly see the amount of times it's happened before from the marks on the kerbstones!

EDIT: The photos were taken about 8 hours after the incident - it happened on the way into work and I took them when I was leaving.

jamoor · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:24

get better tyres?

mattyprice4004 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:24

jamoor said:
get better tyres?

Thanks for the "advice", but it's obviously not what I was looking for.

Useful advice please?

Duke · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:25

rover416i said:
Obviously this wasn't my fault

How did you work that one out?

antijoke · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:26

I'd imagine they would have the usual 'we accept no resposbility signs' placed somewhere.

yak.h'cir · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:26

I'm confused, from what you've said you're just admitting to driving too fast for the wet conditions and that this is somehow someone else's fault... I would imagine the outcome of of complaining to them would be they ignore/laugh at you.

I understand the surface might not be the best, but unless they've actually been polishing it in an attempt to cause accidents I don't think that's going to lend much weight to your argument.

rscosworth · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:26

in what way is the road bad? looks like any normal road to my untrained eye

mattyprice4004 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:26

Duke said:
How did you work that one out?

I was at the speed limit, and I know the same thing has happened to many people at exactly the same place.

bledd · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:27

so you crashed someone else's car into a curb..

yes, it is your fault.

mattyprice4004 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:28

bledd. said:
so you crashed someone else's car into a curb..

yes, it is your fault.

My car actually?

Duke · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:29

rover416i said:
I was at the speed limit, and I know the same thing has happened to many people at exactly the same place.

So you drive the speed limit, no matter what the conditions are? Is it your work place itself?

yak.h'cir · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:30

rover416i said:
I was at the speed limit, and I know the same thing has happened to many people at exactly the same place.

The speed limit is exactly that, the maximum limit! If the conditions or road surface isn't good then you need to drive below that limit. Just because lot's of other people are also careless on that section of the road doesn't put the blame elsewhere!

LoadsaMoney · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:31

Surely at 5 mph your hardly moving. :confused:

You would have just crawled to the kerb and rested on it at that speed.

azab350 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:31

rover416i said:
Anyway, I pull into this and slow down to the 5mph (As I know the material is horrific - it's like the tarmac is permanently covered in black ice!)

so he wasnt speeding, and road is bad

Slinwagh · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:34

azab350 said:
so he wasnt speeding, and road is bad

Are you being sarcastic?

mattyprice4004 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:35

azab350 said:
so he wasnt speeding, and road is bad

TBH Aaron's actually been more useful by reading the thread unlike most of you.

Well done

Hope you all feel shamed. Also 5mph is enough to do that kind of damage when you have 1 tonne of car behind a single tyre, esp when you hit it side on and don't "roll into it".

InvaderGIR · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:36

Whilst it's not helpful at all, I can't help but say.

Owned...at 5mph.

InvG

azab350 · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:36

you can see how smooth that road is

yak.h'cir · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:37

azab350 said:
so he wasnt speeding, and road is bad

If he was actually doing 5mph then he wasn't breaking the limit, but you don't have to break the limit to be speeding.

Slinwagh · 29 Sep 2008 at 19:38

azab350 said:
you can see how smooth that road is

Stop with this rubbish now. It looks like thousands of other roads.