The thing I don't get is why the council are not able to recover all costs when someone collides with the bollards.
It was explained to me by a chappie from the WBC legal department (so make of this what you will) getting the insurance company to pay up is not without the usual hassels, (if the council have all the details and if the car is insured) but in the end the company stumps up. However, most policies have an 'excess' clause where the car owner / driver has to pay an excess amount. This may have to be recovered from them themselves and therein lies the problem.
It was explained to me by a chappie from the WBC legal department (so make of this what you will) getting the insurance company to pay up is not without the usual hassels, (if the counil have all the details and if the car is insured) but in the end the company stumps up. However, most policies have an 'excess' clause where the car owner / driver has to pay an excess amount. This may have to be recovered from them themselves and therein lies the problem.
Threep.
I see, so it would cost more to retrieve the £200.00-400.00, or whatever, than to just let is rest.
My word, we've had the council compared to the Gestapo and now the IRA in recent weeks. Both comparisons are pretty sick in my view and done tastelessly by people who have probably never experienced the horror caused by the actions of either group.
Truth is ignoring seven warning signs and driving one's vehicle into rising bollards is it's more like Dangerous Driving which is no minor offence and is punishable by a maximum of two years in prison. The Police should be handing out this sort of penalty to the reckless motorists involved.
Someone called me a Nazi the other day
The majority of drivers who "make contact" with the bollards are not local.
Indeed! How can we expect people from out of town to either read or obey road signs that they are required to follow in every other part of the country?
Under new measures, motorists could be issued with fines of at least £80 and three points if they tail-gate, undertake or cut others up.
Well that pretty much describes 50% of motorists on the daily commuter trek on the motorways..... (and some of my naughtier driving techniques so I'm screwed)
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Mr Hammond said: “Where road users make low level mistakes or display poor skills we intend to divert them in to a greater range of educational courses to help develop safer skills and attitudes. We will extend this approach to careless driving through the introduction of a new fixed penalty notice as well as new remedial educational courses. We need to re-balance road safety enforcement away from a narrow focus on camera-enforced speed policing, to address the wider range of behaviours that create risk on the roads.
Aaah. It becomes clearer now. A strategy has been put in place to help protect the brothers in arms of the boys in blue who have so recently received their P45s. "You're no longer a proper copper.... but we've sorted out something to keep you busy if you want to be a 'Road Safety Educationalist' and with all the money pouring in from the £80 on the spots you'll still be able to come to the Christmas parties"
http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=12653 Aaah. It becomes clearer now. A strategy has been put in place to help protect the brothers in arms of the boys in blue who have so recently received their P45s. "You're no longer a proper copper.... but we've sorted out something to keep you busy if you want to be a 'Road Safety Educationalist' and with all the money pouring in from the £80 on the spots you'll still be able to come to the Christmas parties"
These courses are what makes it attractive to enforce - fines go to the Treasury, course fees go to the police force.
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