Driven over wet tarmac - who is at fault here?
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Well, if you walk around a traffic cone to fall in a manhole, then consider it a life lesson!
If you have to manoeuvre around the cone to get on the tarmac, than the cone is doing its job.
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That the council have had a call, come back and rushed to add many more signs and told the client their policy is to place multiple signs facing each way and they didn't, they are/were worried about liability.
I'd say the girlfriend and council share fault, improper signing clearly against their own policy, but that there was a cone at all should have been a dead giveaway to your girlfriend.
Had the one cone just been in front of the very next drive down the road, it would be 100% on the council.
One of the bigger issues is, ****'s buy(or nick) their own cones then decide to mark off road for their own cars or friends to park. So unless there are lots of cones and lots of proper signs it is fairly easy to believe it's just a random cone some local who thinks he owns the entire road put out.
Either way, council didn't follow their own signing policy, I would pay to get it cleaned and seek reimbursement from the council, if you want to 'do the right thing', you could offer to share liability and share the clean up costs because she is partially at fault but I would think if the council haven't followed their guidelines they'd cave pretty easily on reimbursing her.
I'd say the girlfriend and council share fault, improper signing clearly against their own policy, but that there was a cone at all should have been a dead giveaway to your girlfriend.
Had the one cone just been in front of the very next drive down the road, it would be 100% on the council.
One of the bigger issues is, ****'s buy(or nick) their own cones then decide to mark off road for their own cars or friends to park. So unless there are lots of cones and lots of proper signs it is fairly easy to believe it's just a random cone some local who thinks he owns the entire road put out.
Either way, council didn't follow their own signing policy, I would pay to get it cleaned and seek reimbursement from the council, if you want to 'do the right thing', you could offer to share liability and share the clean up costs because she is partially at fault but I would think if the council haven't followed their guidelines they'd cave pretty easily on reimbursing her.
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Thankyou... I do try
There is a traffic cone...
Yes a traffic cone, which completely blocked access by....traffic....so she drove over the high curb and the grass.
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Clearly in the wrong. There's signage all up the street... Even if the one outside the house was turned, there's no way you'd miss the other 6+ unless you were clinically blind 
Yeah, those things that are used to guide and redirect traffic away from other things?
Helps if you follow them.
Clearly in the wrong. There's signage all up the street... Even if the one outside the house was turned, there's no way you'd miss the other 6+ unless you were clinically blind
They were added later according to OP.
Thanks for the advice I'll remember next time I get behind the wheel
Which clearly has a sign.
Which she very much had to actively avoid to access the drive.
At the end of the day while you may be able to moan enough to the council pulling rules and regs out of your backside to get them to back down and pay up it would be nice if people just accepted the consequences of their actions sometimes rather than thinking "Oooh who can I blame for this one!?"
At the end of the day while you may be able to moan enough to the council pulling rules and regs out of your backside to get them to back down and pay up it would be nice if people just accepted the consequences of their actions sometimes rather than thinking "Oooh who can I blame for this one!?"
So according to the OPs picture... What does the sign say?
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Pull the other one
If the cone was not there, she'd have driven straight on to the driveway.
Consequences of actions such as not bothering to put all your signage out until you get a rocket shot up your ass by your boss because someone just drove through your poorly signed workplace?
Yep, its one of those "ahh **** I'm a tool" moments.
Hands held up admit your mistake, go beg the workers to fix the tarmac before it sets and then loook for a cleaning company phone the client explaining what happened and that you're happy to arange/pay for cleaning of thier srive and youve brivlbed the council lads to fix the tarmac portion
....or drive off and compalin later when its unfoxable
Wet tar. If she'd stopped and looked at the sign instead of driving over the raised kerb and grass she would have seen this.
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Just out of interest, do you like playing devils advocate or you honestly believe that this is mostly the councils fault?
I mean, whether she could read the sign or not, she had to go out of her way and improperly drive over the grass and high curb to avoid it, so it was quite clearly seen.
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