Driven over wet tarmac - who is at fault here?

[Trusty]

Was there wet tar all along the street or just on the driveway she went on? If there was wet tar all along, then the signage isn't good enough although most people on here, i presume, would have stopped when they saw the cone in front of the driveway of their client. Tbf, driving on their grass should be like a parking ticket or something, £50 fine for being a doofus

 

[Twirlywoos]

Your gf is clearly at fault for the reasons already stated. Don't let word of mouth ruin your business as well as trying to win compo from the council. You're lucky they aren't sueing you for damages. Now your clients will have to look outside their driveway with tyre marks over the entrance which looks like it was caused by a drunk driver.

 

[Cosimo]

When are GD driving over to finish what she started?

 

[Orionaut]

Don't really get why she pulled onto the driveway at all, The front door is only a couple of yards from the road and the road seemed (from the pictures) to be OK to park on, at least for a couple of minutes.

 

[Hedge]

As crap as the signage was, anyone with a bit of common sense would pull over and walk to read the sign before driving over the grass. She's made a mistake and it's only her fault really.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The signage is poor but that cone would have made me stop and think. It's effectively saying don't come into the drive, so driving into it via the grass is not logical..

I never drive into peoples drives anyway, always park on the road.

 

[Hedge]

I also find the parking on someone's drive instead of front Street a bit weird too.(although I guess she maybe takes dogs for long walk and wants to park up by their house)

 

[Participant]

I have this feeling that if the camera looked the other way down the street we would see a long row of cones and she drove up the kerb past the last cone... after driving past a long line of WET TAR signs.

But then why would someone point the camera both ways on the street when it makes their side look better by only taking a picture of one way.

This. Why have we only got a picture one way up the street?

Irrespective, it's worrying that she carried on merrily past the obvious cone and sign.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Why are you even concentrating on whether there were other signs? There was a massive great cone with a sign attached (even if you could only see the back) blocking the drive access. So much so that she had to drive over a raised kerb and grass to avoid it. Has lack of personal responsibility and awareness really gotten to this level?

I parked my car in a retail centre car park yesterday. A woman who had just gotten herself a mcdonalds parks next to me. She opens her door with a mighty force straight into mine to throw litter into the car park. She spots me in the car and quickly shuts her door. She doesn't look in my direction again. So I get out to check my car door, luckily it looks like no damage she doesn't bother winding her window down to apologise or anything. I took note of her regy as it was peeing of rain. It's dry today so I'll have a proper look but it's likely she would deny all knowledge anyway but wondering if I should inform police of littering and damage if any.

 

[ince]

Human nature automatically tries to shift blame. That is how humans are built.

Sometimes it is better to accept responsibility and learn from it.

However if you do move on and don't think about it again only the lesson learnt.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Only idiots try to shift blame. A decent human being will admit fault and accept the consequences.

 

[Dis86]

Ohhhhh Peeeeee? Where arrre you?

 

[Hotwired]

Ohhhhh Peeeeee? Where arrre you?

Sounds like a medical issue

 

[Xordium]

Only idiots try to shift blame. A decent human being will admit fault and accept the consequences.

So I take it if a mod where to find your post somewhat offensive towards the lady concerned and using unnecessarily harsh phrasing you would take that on the chin and email to the mod to confirm your error?

 

[Scougar]

Get her drive way sorted out asap. Figure out the liability later.

If you act quickly your customer will remember it. Also, give the lady a call, don't keep mailing, give it the personal touch. You need to figure out how best to clean, or flip etc.

Act quickly.

 

[Russinating]

From the tyre marks I can't work out at all how she got on and off? It looks like there's 5 tyres on the tar.

 

[cainer]

You need to figure out how best to clean, or flip etc.

Act quickly.

those blocks will have a beveled top edge so cant be flipped, however.. they are cheap to buy (~20p-25p) per block

 

[asim18]

There's no way that is sufficient signage. But then again I doubt you pay as much council tax as London? I'd expect anything wet like that to be cordoned off using actual barriers like in pic on this article: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/chester-road-roadworks-completion-date-10391391.

Looks like half of it is supposed to be a footpath as well, where is the barrier for pedestrians, especially ones with poor eyesight?

If she parked her car on the road and stepped out on to the pavement she would have left footprints and messed up her shoes and it would have been a mess anyway.

 

[Tefal]

It is a bit suspicious unless by that time they'd only done one driveway?

Bit suspicious that the single solitary cone is the one that gets driven past too

 

[Tefal]

So I take it if a mod where to find your post somewhat offensive towards the lady concerned and using unnecessarily harsh phrasing you would take that on the chin and email to the mod to confirm your error?

I belive we can be as harsh abd unessecery as we like to non members