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Originally Posted by stamford
Sorry to hear that mate. Council don't give a ****, they pass it over to the highways dept and they decide what needs gritting. Outside our house the road was like glass, we are on a bend as well, there has been three accidents. The wife lost control of the hire car we had (written off Jimny last month) she was driving around a damaged car in 1st gear, walking pace and slid into the kerb. Car is undriveable, steering is cocked up and seems a diff issue. We have been told we have lost the hire car as it was a fault accident, council don't care, really pissed off about that!
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I was waiting on someone coming out with this.The council's have no responsibilty to grit roads it is the roads departments responsibilty to salt roads, it was all taken away from councils during the last last governments local authority restructure and the disbanding of the D.L.O's and turing them into Public private partnerships where the emphasis is now on profit other than service. also this year in particular the reason it has been so bad is all local authorities and councils have no money the government gave it all to the banks meaning there is no money to spend on overtime or indeed extra salt my council has been told to slash millions from the budget over the next three years so well done Gordon it's all down to you again.