Alice, you’ve l;ost your little red slippers! The ‘Moral’ of this story is not the behavior of the victim (you must subscribe to the ‘rapee was at fault for being there’ mindset), When you take your vehicle on a federal highway with a posted speed limit you have a reasonable expectation that that roadway will be maintained to the standard for that speed. When the federal government and state governments withold funding that would keep those highways safe then the government entities have in fact created a liability hazard and own the resulting losses. Remember they had had numerous complaints about those particular potholes. Did they place adequate warning signage and lane restrictions/speed restrictions/ emergency (read temporary overhaul) efforts to reduce the known hazards? Having traveled that road, I tend to think they put the orange chuckhole signs up less than 100 yards prior to the hazard, did not restrict the lanes, did not reduce the speed limits, and did not fill nor hotpatch the offending hazard.
Agreed. If the maintenance coordinator knew complaints were received and a scheduled resurfacing had to be postponed, and that patches weren’t effective, he proves that they knew of a problem and, by their own admission, failed to provide a working solution.
How can they look at the situation and not say it’s in the interest of public safety to either close that section of the road or take some other corrective actions such as those listed by anon?
Get away from a disabled vehicle when it pulls off a highway. This wasn’t caused by potholes. It was caused by stupidity.
Alice, you’ve l;ost your little red slippers! The ‘Moral’ of this story is not the behavior of the victim (you must subscribe to the ‘rapee was at fault for being there’ mindset), When you take your vehicle on a federal highway with a posted speed limit you have a reasonable expectation that that roadway will be maintained to the standard for that speed. When the federal government and state governments withold funding that would keep those highways safe then the government entities have in fact created a liability hazard and own the resulting losses. Remember they had had numerous complaints about those particular potholes. Did they place adequate warning signage and lane restrictions/speed restrictions/ emergency (read temporary overhaul) efforts to reduce the known hazards? Having traveled that road, I tend to think they put the orange chuckhole signs up less than 100 yards prior to the hazard, did not restrict the lanes, did not reduce the speed limits, and did not fill nor hotpatch the offending hazard.
Agreed. If the maintenance coordinator knew complaints were received and a scheduled resurfacing had to be postponed, and that patches weren’t effective, he proves that they knew of a problem and, by their own admission, failed to provide a working solution.
How can they look at the situation and not say it’s in the interest of public safety to either close that section of the road or take some other corrective actions such as those listed by anon?
Yeah Alice, get a grip!