Property Damage by Vehicle

At the end of the day:

1. damage has been done though minor
2. there will be material and labour costs to repair lawn though not much
3. if that was your lawn why should you fork out?
4. driver said he thought it belonged to council so drove over it

I'll leave it to the neighbour.
 
It's very unlikely insurance would pay out for scuffed grass. If they knocked over a fence or something then yea. What would they pay out? A couple of £ for grass seeds? Not worth anyone's time.
 
Get a roller or even a Sledgehammer/Gimpy and thump it down level.

Must admit I was expecting deep ruts in his lawn. When driving my wagon I was unable to join M6 N at J16 one night and I took a wrong turning (the diversion sign had blown over) and I ended up facing a low bridge somewhere near Congleton. Only escape was to reverse down this blokes posh gravelled driveway. You can imagine what a 44 tonner did !!

Yup, he put a claim in which our company duly paid no arguments.
 
I was expecting bowling green/golf course level of care and upkeep in your neighbours garden. Then I could understand pursuing costs for repair. As it stands, it'll uncompress over winter and look normal by spring again. It's too cold now to do anything about it, it'll look worse if he starts messing with it now, best to just leave it alone and let nature do its thing.
 
Id love to be the claims adjuster in this situation

He would end up owing the insurance company money for messing about over something so trivial.
 
This is one of those things that if they'd knocked on my door and said "Sorry, we accidentally drove over your lawn, can we do something to rectify it?" then I'd probably have let it go.

What would wind me up, and make me pursue it, is the complete lack of respect for someone else's property.

Mind you I'm still sore about the neighbours friend driving into one of my cars and then driving off, it's only £220 for a new fog light surround but that's not the point.
 
Outcast said:
Get a roller or even a Sledgehammer/Gimpy and thump it down level.

Must admit I was expecting deep ruts in his lawn. When driving my wagon I was unable to join M6 N at J16 one night and I took a wrong turning (the diversion sign had blown over) and I ended up facing a low bridge somewhere near Congleton. Only escape was to reverse down this blokes posh gravelled driveway. You can imagine what a 44 tonner did !!

Yup, he put a claim in which our company duly paid no arguments.
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You are lucky you didn't get stuck (I guess you didn't drive the tractor unit onto the gravel)

Many years ago I drove my Van onto a customers gravel drive and the next thing I knew I was up to the axles in it.

Getting out was like trying to drive through a pit full of ball bearings....:p
 
kindai said:
Really?

Suing over some grass... jesus friggin christ...

"get a grip" would be my advice.
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Making repairs to a lawn, especially if it was their pride and joy can be expensive and time consuming. Why should the owner of the property pay for the driver's incompetence. It's an insurance claim, no argument.

I could start a thread about all the feckless drivers who purposely damage the grass verges lining the roads and pavements in our towns and cities. The verges end up looking an eyesore as the councils don't have the money to repair them any more. Whatever happened to 'civic pride'. Why do some people want to live in an area made to look a pig hole?
 
hornetstinger said:
I would have blown my brains out, how could you live another Day with massive amount of unrecoverable lawn like that. Worst thing that has ever happened to anyone ever.
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Because such things don't matter to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter to others. Example, you may like tech and would not be best pleased if someone damaged one of your gadgets. That may not matter one jot to someone who couldn't care less about tech.

It's not about cost, it's about what matters to the individual concerned. If it matters to them then it has just the same relevance as any other type of damage.
 
Faustus said:
Because such things don't matter to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter to others. Example, you may like tech and would not be best pleased if someone damaged one of your gadgets. That may not matter one jot to someone who couldn't care less about tech.

It's not about cost, it's about what matters to the individual concerned. If it matters to them then it has just the same relevance as any other type of damage.
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Grass repairs itself. TVs do not.
 
kindai said:
Really?

Suing over some grass... jesus friggin christ...

"get a grip" would be my advice.
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Jesus christ, this, I deliver a few times a week, if I ever have this problem and they phone up to complain, I would say "its grass, it will grow back" the end.

edit: lol at pics, some people are pathetic
 
wesimmo said:
This is one of those things that if they'd knocked on my door and said "Sorry, we accidentally drove over your lawn, can we do something to rectify it?" then I'd probably have let it go.

What would wind me up, and make me pursue it, is the complete lack of respect for someone else's property.
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yup, granted we can't really see the general state of the lawn very well due to the leaves but if it is otherwise level then the people saying "it will grow back" etc.. are missing the point - the grass is still there, it is the damage to the lawn that requires some work/intervention and it won't fix itself but needs someone to spend some time/effort to fix ergo an apology is in order... (and if a Gardner is employed then it is taking him away from normal duties to spend time/money to sort out)


Johno please? said:
Jesus christ, this, I deliver a few times a week, if I ever have this problem and they phone up to complain, I would say "its grass, it will grow back" the end.
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this is exactly the sort of response that would get peoples backs up and make it more likely that they'd want to escalate something minor... if they've got you on CCTV and can document the expense needed to fix it then you're screwed and if you work for a big company then an invoice/letter to legal explaining the situation would probably get them paid
 
Leaves all over the grass. I had all mine swept up before the end of October. They have been left there to rot. Whilst I agree the shipping company should pay a gardener to sort it they should take a little bit more care of their garden in the first place!
 
hornetstinger said:
Grass repairs itself. TVs do not.
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The rut ain't gonna disappear by itself. It'll have to be filled in and seeded.

I'd claim anyway especially as the driver/company don't seem to give a monkeys. If they'd apologised I might have let it go but as it is, tell the neighbours to put in a claim with the insurance and let the assessor argue about it.
 
Fill it with leaves to bring it up to level with the grass :p

I'm on the fence (pardon the garden pun). I'd try (not overly hard) to have the company in question make good the damage caused but if push comes to shove and the effort required becomes significant I'd just fill it, seed it and move on with my life :o

Inb4 the company in question offers to compress the remaining lawn down to the same level.
 
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