Oops! Bumped my campershite....

[kinkersaab]

 

My fault entirely..bugger! However, it is a new sunshade, and in my opinion not in an ideal location, at no point did i mount the pavement... The owner was insistant it was within regualtions, but i bet she doesnt put it out that far again....

[fairkens]

Doesn't look like it was your fault at all

[kinkersaab]

Well, i was driving, Just because it was an obstruction above, doesnt negate my lack of due care, im hoping it can be sorted cash, reallly dont want to claim on insurance, the camper now has a duct tape plaster

[dean36014]

Pretty sure it shouldn't project out into the road, bus, lorry or a van could wipe it out easily.

[kinkersaab]

I think it was inline with rather than over, i guess i must have caught it with the luton overhanging bit when i edged in towards the curb to park, but, i guess that is what people do in villages...hey ho.... Fingers crossed its not too dear to put right

[Richard]

I've hit one of the fixed canopies in Pitlochry with my van before, they are surprisingly resilient.

[Pillock]

Claim for whiplash, that'll learn her.

It does look like it comes out too far though, more than common sense would suggest. Perhaps seed that fact with your insurance company and see if they argue it for you? However then you're on the slippery slope of having to go through insurance.

[anonymous user]

You never know, the shop owner might sell it to you cheap as a fold out awning for the camper

[angle]

The owner was insistant it was within regualtions, but i bet she doesnt put it out that far again....

 

It's not, PM me if you need the boring details. Although as my friend found out when crashing into a car parked on double yellow lines, just because it shouldn't be there, insurance companies still take a dim view of you crashing into it...

[Negative Creep]

I think the fact he hit a stationary object would override the fact it wouldn't be there

[kinkersaab]

I agree entirley. I iz dick. it doesnt mean its a sensible thing to have there though...

[Uncle Jimmy]

Fix angle iron to front. Next time it will be the awning that comes off worst.

[OwdChina]

Crashing into a stationary object parked on the street is one thing,...... but crashing into something overhanging the street, nine foot in the air is something else. Not your fault in my opinion.

[hairnet]

tell the council about dangerous structures and that blinds in the window might be a good idea

 

and that yer richard kiels newphews and yer 7 foot two and had to duck cos it might have had yer eye out

[mercrocker]

Could have had somebody's eye out with that on a double-decker. Just because it could possibly have been avoided doesn't mean it should be there...

[dieselassist]

...Id take whatever she says with a 100 weight of salt; about it being within 'reg's -her canopy must come down every other day of the week, via delivery vans, luton styled bodied furniture vans, and as some says buses parking up to deliver shite/ consumers that buy her tat... surely her public liability insurance is very much in question with that canopy thing?? what propose does it serve, is it a café where she puts out tables n chairs etc??

[Twiggy]

I wonder if this development needed planning/building consent ? If it did and neither was obtained, the consequences for her could well be financially disastrous.

[UltraWomble]

Ive been sat here with a box of matches ( your camper) and a packet of opal fruits ( the awning) trying to work out how the hell you clobered something not overhanging the road without mounting the kerb.

 

and I cant.

 

So Im going to eat the Opal Fruits.

[stuboy]

not sure its that legal to stick out into carrigeway

[Noel Tidybeard]

was there a warning sign as to the height restiction imposed on the public highway?

[fairkens]

I'd love to know what regs she was talking about - The Awning (Overhanging the Roadway)(England and Wales) Regulations 2004?

[oldcars]

Looking at the picture its hard to see how it was'nt over the road. The two V shaped pieces on the second photo lock out to hold the canopy tight do the not? If so it has to have been over the road.

[Cavcraft]

I'd tell them FRO and speak to your insurance yourself, it looks to me like it's the shop's fault as it's overhanging into the road.

[Des]

That's not your fault, it's fair to assume that if you keep off the pavement you'll not crash into buildings. If you let the shop owner away with that she'll be putting up piano wire between lamp posts next, beheading bikers and blaming them.

[Mr Lobster]

I'm with those suggesting you fight it.  If its overhanging the road I'd be amazed if that doesn't contravene some sort of regulation.

 

Whilst it might technically be your fault that you hit the stationary awning, given that it shouldn't be overhanging the road in the first place must place some sort of liability on the shop owners. Otherwise they could just string a pole across the street at a height of 2m and then go legal with everyone who hits it which would probably be far more lucrative than running an actual shop. 

[Alan_Green]

It only overhangs in the "after" photos, now that the pole is bent. On the un-bent side it doesn't overhang. I also don't see how the matches hit the opal fruits. But presumably there are regs and one poster earlier seems to know them.

[trigger]

Unfortunately if it wasn't you who hit it then it would have been someone else, thankfully they wasn't anyone under it and that it didn't fall. I wonder if she had planning permission to have a awning in the first place seeing that none of the other shops have one?

 

I've just found this online.

 

[colino]

I know that planning regs are different and applied differently all over the UK, but on taking over a retail place with such an "oversail"  as new owner I was obliged to remove it.  Reasons being; I didn't have planning permission, I didn't have approval from Highways, I didn't have necessary additional minimum £100k public liability coverage for the oversail and no part of any such oversail should be closer than 40cm to or above the carriageway.

That shop owner is lying and relying on your good nature to stump up for their pikey canopy and hope you don't sue for the damage to your vehicle.

If Mr Tesco took a wrong turning and went down that street, not only would he have ripped the shop front off, but Mr T would be looking for compensation for his truck and load too.

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, stuff her.

 

Just my 2p worth a la keyboard you understand. 

[hairnet]

call her bluff and ask her to provide a copy of the regs ask the council about theirs too