Car plus wooden fence

[ANGEL#3]

Ok, well I'm ****ed off this is the 3rd mayor incident this year only that a car has slammed into our streets fence.
Our houses back onto a road which is far too close and never should have been laid there. Developers got it wrong a put it in the wrong place.

Late this arvo whilst cooking dinner for the kids heard this huge bang knew straight away what had happened. Raced out to find a bloody car in the backyard of my next door nougbours place, which wasn't home.
Wood scatted the backyard, snapped a metal support poll in half and bent whole panel of colourbond sheets x3 plus frame.

We have contacted the local council to put in place an armcove rail to stop this from happening, we first made contact back in 2002 and still nothing. So I’ve just contacted the media in hope this just might get something done although the local news papers have already written a stories about this before.

What’s it going to take the death a one or more children before council does something?

BB

[Thornie]

thats kinda bad luck, i had an incident last year with a vn rolling on my fence the 20 metres of length.

[xbcool]

geez thats scarey ,I wouldn't be letting the kids in the yard till an armco was put up.

keep getting stuck into the council

[Charliewool]

He might have had better luck getting around the bend without the club lock on? :

[Ringo]

Originally Posted by charliewool

He might have had better luck getting around the bend without the club lock on? :

[Fev]

ummm i think thats the steering wheel cover but funny none te less :P.

but yeah. thats incredible! 3 times already and the council still doesnt see it as a black spot? fcking politicians.

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by Fev

ummm i think thats the steering wheel cover but funny none te less :P.

but yeah. thats incredible! 3 times already and the council still doesnt see it as a black spot? fcking politicians.

It is a steering wheel cover. But funny........LOL

It's really not the 3 time, it's happened alot think we're up around the 7 mark now. it's the 3rd real big one and the 2nd big one this year only.
I've ready sent an email to today tonight hoping they just might take the storey up.
It's hard enough cause our mayor is a friend of the family and not even he can do anything to speed it up. All the members of the board all have to agree that it's a black spot.
I'm writting another letter to council and this time is not going to be nice.

BB

[Fev]

why cannot he convince its a blackspot? you got pictures and dates of all the crashes? ithink that should be enough to convince them!!

[Sam_Boss260]

As a parent with little kids, I would be scared to let them play in the yard.

Yeah, see what the media says about it... I'm sure that they would love a story with a picture of kids playing in the yard, then a shot of the ute through the fence in the same spot.

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by Fev

ummm i think thats the steering wheel cover but funny none te less :P.

but yeah. thats incredible! 3 times already and the council still doesnt see it as a black spot? fcking politicians.

The council probably does see it as a black spot but, insted of wasting money on amco rail they will invest in a fixed speed camera this way they will have a financial return to cover the cost of fixing the fence 3 tiems a year

[Yellow_Festiva]

Get onto talkback radio, that seems to work when people want results and are at their wits end.

[GRNKPR]

write to the couincil or call one of those current affairs shows and dramatise it right up to get action or install a couple of concrete barriers behind fence !!!!! or make some cash out of it and get the trading post buy a $50 car and collect of insurance the next time a car comes through !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

The council probably does see it as a black spot but, insted of wasting money on amco rail they will invest in a fixed speed camera this way they will have a financial return to cover the cost of fixing the fence 3 tiems a year

Council will never put that up, but gives me I good idea to make up a dummy speed camera. Thanks.

For the fence council won’t touch it because when the first time a car hit the fence we contacted my local council to come out a repair it they said
“It’s not their fence it's your fence fix it yourself " What the!
The person that can’t drive and hits the fence they go through there insurance company. That a pain in it's self the drive claims of vehicle damage and we need to loge one as well for property damage and the two departments fight it out. This could take up to 1-2 months before any work gets done.

Council have been contact today via there own website. I made it that they must contact me by mail. Can't what to see what the reply will be. I'll keep ya's all posted. should get the letter some time next month i think as everyone knows that the all council don't move quick.

BB

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Get onto talkback radio, that seems to work when people want results and are at their wits end.

Great idea Yellow Festiva just might do that tomorrow I'll give one of my local radio station a call. Maybe they just might help us.

[Bobman]

What's wrong with these drivers?

Don't they know how to drive? :

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by Bobman

What's wrong with these drivers?

Don't they know how to drive? :

tell me and there all local people too. The one yesterday was a red p plate drive that I know. He still got a ear bashing thou. D**head.
I can unstand if it happen and the person that was from out of the area and doesn't know the roads. But still shouldn't happen.

[XR Martin]

Stuff the council, go to a landscape supply place (or a quarry) and order some big rocks and put them on the nature strip.

[XR Martin]

Or get some 3m long 4in diameter steel pipe, concrete half the length in the ground behind the fence, fill the pipe with more concrete and that should stop anything coming through bar a big truck.

[The Yeti]

just thinking blackbetty this wouldnt be the one in western sydney that has had a number of hits and been on the news earlier this year would it? I seem to remember that guy on channel 7 I cant stand becasue of the way he drags on at the end of a sentince (Paul Marshel I think) doign a thing and the councile agreed do somthing but was against amco as it was somthign the were phasing out due to the dangers, as we all no better to kill a few kids inocently playing in there back yard rather than an idiot driver getting injured

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by The Yeti

just thinking blackbetty this wouldnt be the one in western sydney that has had a number of hits and been on the news earlier this year would it? I seem to remember that guy on channel 7 I cant stand becasue of the way he drags on at the end of a sentince (Paul Marshel I think) doign a thing and the councile agreed do somthing but was against amco as it was somthign the were phasing out due to the dangers, as we all no better to kill a few kids inocently playing in there back yard rather than an idiot driver getting injured

Nah mate I'm in Wollongong and the council i live in is Shellharbour city council. They have been in court for the part month or so. Looks like were getting a new council board soon............lol.

[ANGEL#3]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

Or get some 3m long 4in diameter steel pipe, concrete half the length in the ground behind the fence, fill the pipe with more concrete and that should stop anything coming through bar a big truck.

I'm waiting for my part of the wooden fence to rot away and I’ll be replacing it with the big concert ones like the ones you see on some highways. Take it down about 2 meters. That my next big job around the house should get it done in a couple of years.
My daughter wants a swimming pool. So its pool next summer then a fence.

[devilcv8]

not sure about in town, but in rural areas if a car/truck smashes through a fence, the landowner has the right to not allow the vehicle to be retrieved until the damage ahs been paid for.

[Unco]

fence + labour probably worth more than the crappy ute.

i'd be peeved off. the problem with getting council to do anything about this type of thing is that they need to allocate resources to the most troubled areas.

i.e. there must be other places in your council's jurisdiction that have a higher priority for traffic calming devices. and yes, it is unfortunate that sometimes it takes a death for them to upgrade a particular area's priority in the list.

[scoupedy]

A lady here in brisy (cleveland) had the same problem except they were going into the house she threatened to sue if anyone ever got hurt and went to the local paper they ended up putting in a double row guard rail (armeco?)
On the bright side that wooden fence needed some paint soon