Someone I know crashed in to a roundabout - Advice please!

[SimonSh]

In doing so they went through one of the chevron signs on the roundabout and took out 2 of its posts - they are (optimistically I think) wanting to repair the car without advising their insurance company and are therefore looking to also pay for the damaged signage themselves if/when the council invoices them. (The police attended and so I am guessing they will inform the council of the signage damage)

My question is does anyone have a decent educated guess at to the likely cost of the roundabout "furniture"??

[rix]

A lot more than you'd think. I reckon prob £500-1000 from what you describe. Obviously it will require a couple of site visits and labour etc... Plus they'd still have to disclose the accident to their insurers regardless of whether they loose their ncb. Probably a non starter!

[SimonSh]

Thanks Rix - What is that guesstimate based on? (I'm not being cheeky - it's just the individual concerned will ask me the same question!!)

[TooLateForAName]

I suspect that the estimate given is low.

Based on what highways wanted to charge our parish council for erecting a 20mph sign outside the school 5 years ago.

[dacouch]

More likely to be upwards of £1000.

[StuntmanMike]

I saw an entire exhaust system, sump and thick black line of oil going over a roundabout once, I had to laugh, imagine the brown trouser moment there.

[SimonSh]

Are these figures based on experience or just guesses? I really need to know because I may be able to persuade them to just go via insurance instead of potentially ending up with a part repaired car and a council debt

[AGK]

£1000 won't touch the sides.

Let inaurance deal with it.

[vonhosen]

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parkingtransportandstr...

[HTP99]

Being a car accident and with the Council involved I would imagine they would insist that insurance is involved, they wont want to be chasing your mate for invoices to be paid and I should think the cost of replacing the sign would run into a few thousand at the very least; surveys, a team of workers for a few days, no doubt part of the road where they are working would be shut so temporary traffic lights would need to be installed and then there is the cost of the actual sign itself.

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 25th October 17:36

[dudleybloke]

It wont be cheap.

Will there need to be any lane closures/traffic management in place while the repairs being done?
What size chevron sign/poles/ect?

without a pic of the damage its hard to even hazard a guess.

[oobster]

Back in 1989 I managed to half a 30mph speed limit sign in two with the front of my mini on the way to the scene of my accident, I then received a bill in from the council for around £700.

I don't suppose prices have gone down any in the last 25 years.

[SimonSh]

vonhosen said:

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/parkingtransportandstr...

Thanks for that vonhosen!!! Looks like it will be rough equivalent of 2 regulatory signs on new posts (Although there could be additional costs for removing damaged old ones) so yes around £1k seems likely.

Thanks all who contributed!!

[ZOLLAR]

HTP99 said:

Being a car accident and with the Council involved I would imagine they would insist that insurance is involved, they wont want to be chasing your mate for invoices to be paid and I should think the cost of replacing the sign would run into a few thousand at the very least; surveys, a team of workers for a few days, no doubt part of the road where they are working would be shut so temporary traffic lights would need to be installed and then there is the cost of the actual sign itself.

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 25th October 17:36

Pretty much this, not the area of insurance I deal with but a close friend does and from what I've heard about local authorities is that they charge for every cost involved, reckon it'll be over £1,500 easily.
They will most likely go through insurance as they know the costs can be recovered quickly.

[rix]

I used to work for a local authority some 10 plus years ago, I only dealt with simple street signs but remember them being several hundred at a minimum, so by guesstimate is VERY loosely based on that!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

HTP99 said:

Being a car accident and with the Council involved I would imagine they would insist that insurance is involved,

They can't insist on that. They can insist they get paid, but not who by.

[sugerbear]

Are the council entitled to a new sign? Don't they have to follow rules as everyone else,(betterment), so if the sign is old they can only claim a %

[sugerbear]

Are the council entitled to a new sign? Don't they have to follow rules as everyone else,(betterment), so if the sign is old they can only claim a %

[steve2]

you will be looking at two grand plus and normally it will be highways that deal with it

[ooo000ooo]

£1500 replaced a lamppost a mate removed.