Clearing An Access Road

theboyrob

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There's a long slope up to where I live (a block of apartments) and I always have trouble getting the car back up when I've been out as it never gets gritted.

I'm wondering whether I should go and and clear some tracks at the top half of the slope to aid getting back and maybe put some grit down but I'm wondering whether I should be doing this or not. If I do clear some of the road am I in some way liable if someone has an accident there??
 
i've been warned about clearing the pavement and road outside my house for fear of someone having an accident and me being liable, but pffft personally i wouldn't worry about it, do the good deed, dont expect any thanks though, most people are **** lol
 
just do it , it will be safer than just leaving it.

Dont really understand all that held liable rubbish when you are just making something much safer , the world has gone loopy though!
 
Start clearing it, and who knows someone else from the flats might join you in helping. Tis christmas after all :D
 
imo more people should take personal responsibility and help shift snow from their local road, drive, etc rather than relying on the council

I clear the pavement at my house and the surface is a lot better and safer than a sludgy or icy mess
 
I'm fairly sure the whole liability thing is a myth. Can't remember where I heard it though - perhaps on QI? I'm sure people will just thank you for clearing the area to be honest.
 
tbh there should be a tv campaign to dispell any myths and to encourage people to help clear up
 
When I was a kid in the 70's, we lived in a small Cul-de-sac at the bottom of a hill and whenever it snowed, EVERYONE from the Cul-de-sac would be out either with shovels or hot food and hot drinks, the whole community would clear the road, it was - Believe it or not - Great fun for all involved. I can vividly remember how happy everyone was and everyone just mucked in and had a laugh together. If you did that now all you'd get is people trying to stop you or just frowning at you for trying. :(
 
I'm fairly sure the whole liability thing is a myth. Can't remember where I heard it though - perhaps on QI? I'm sure people will just thank you for clearing the area to be honest.
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I heard this too.
 
LawfordLass said:
I'm fairly sure the whole liability thing is a myth. Can't remember where I heard it though - perhaps on QI? I'm sure people will just thank you for clearing the area to be honest.
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The liability thing depends on which council area you are in, some spazzer in council offices in some places in England sent out notes to local business to warn them that cleraly snow causing icy conditions under it would leae them liable.
Leaving it untouched they would not be liable.
Now in law and in good faith not doing a half-arsed job, you are probably not liable, but once you have been warned by the owner of the footpath (council) it then becomes a mess.
Council shouldn't have been warning shopkeepers in the first place. Muddies the whole legal process rather than clarifies it.
 
I just this minute finished clearing the my own paths and that of the elderly neighbours as well as a section of the public pavement outside my own house. IMHO, everyone that's able to do this should instead of the "its not my job" pish that they come away with....
 
Do it.

If somebody really did sue you, I'm sure a Judge would laugh them out of court if it even got that far.
 
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