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Title: Debris in the roads..
Post by: aaronjb on 22 October 2010, 19:55:17
So .. who do you report that kind of thing to?

Motorways and 'major trunk roads' apparently it's the highways agency, who direct you to 'local authorities' for everything else; but the council are hardly going to be open at 8pm on a Friday night, so.. the local police?
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 22 October 2010, 19:57:16
by debris do you mean drunk foreigners?

fit a bull bar to the miggy, problemo solved.  :D
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: aaronjb on 22 October 2010, 19:59:37
 ;D No I mean four bags of dry cement that clearly fell off the back of a lorry on a blind bend .. which, by the morning, will probably be four bags of rather' hard concrete sitting in the carriageway!
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: RobG on 22 October 2010, 19:59:50
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So .. who do you report that kind of thing to?

Motorways and 'major trunk roads' apparently it's the highways agency, who direct you to 'local authorities' for everything else; but the council are hardly going to be open at 8pm on a Friday night, so.. the local police?
If it constitutes a danger to motorists, the old bill
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: feeutfo on 22 October 2010, 20:01:59
999, or SOS button,  ::)

And they send out the hato's...
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: vauxfan2k on 22 October 2010, 20:02:16
i would have thought it only polite to remove the cement and take it home, finders keepers.  ;D
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: Richie London on 22 October 2010, 20:07:14
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i would have thought it only polite to remove the cement and take it home, finders keepers.  ;D


 :y :y
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: aaronjb on 22 October 2010, 20:08:19
Bit late for the emergency number now I reckon, but it's been reported to the non-emergency number.. one would hope someone goes and clears it up - it's a horrible blind bend that saw a fatality about a fortnight ago .. it'll only take someone swerving around the bags to cause another one.

(And yes, I probably should have called at the time, really  :-[ I always get told off by the police for that .. last time was when I found someone climbing in my window in the middle of the night .. chased him off and called the non emergency number in the morning  :-[ ::) )
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: smithpa7 on 22 October 2010, 21:09:04
I came across a pile of large cones on the A1 southbound dual carraigeway last Thursday. I called 999 and they were there very quickly. I wasn't prepared to risk my life trying to move them.
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: PhilRich on 22 October 2010, 22:14:02
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Bit late for the emergency number now I reckon, but it's been reported to the non-emergency number.. one would hope someone goes and clears it up - it's a horrible blind bend that saw a fatality about a fortnight ago .. it'll only take someone swerving around the bags to cause another one.

(And yes, I probably should have called at the time, really  :-[ I always get told off by the police for that .. last time was when I found someone climbing in my window in the middle of the night .. chased him off and called the non emergency number in the morning  :-[ ::) )
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The Police would have been well down the call list if that had been me! Undertaker first I reckon  ::) ;)
Title: Re: Debris in the roads..
Post by: aaronjb on 22 October 2010, 22:19:24
Well he was quicker than me.. largely because it was my bedroom window (ground floor flat) and I was butt nekked at the time!  ;D I knew that it was a rabbit warren of unlit alleyways around my way so he'd be long gone by the time the plod turned up anyway, hence I just shut my window (didn't sleep with it open after that!) and left it till the morning..

They were none too impressed with that course of action  ;D