beware traffic islands.

[kwak zzr]

on my way to work this morning at 5.30am i came across this- (i just happend to have my camera with me)
http://upload4.postimage.org/579882/DSCF0028.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/579882/photo_hosting.html)
i phoned the local council and reported it.

[Law]

I assume that's diesel and not you weeing yourself while taking the roundabout. :lol:

[kwak zzr]

i might as well have been my pee! no it was diesel.

[Ed]

That is appalling. Well done you for reporting it. Wonder if the council did anything.

Lesson to those who drive diesel cars - don't overfill the tank.

[Peter Henry]

That pic should be sent to the folks behind the "Stop Spills" campaign. That is totally dreadfull! :shock:

[Jase22]

Lesson to those who drive diesel cars - don't overfill the tank.


Think you'll find the culprit of major diesel spillages are lorry drivers. They overfill their tanks on long trips to avoid having to stop on the way for a fill up.

You should always keep your nose sniffing out for diesel, you should be able to smell fresh spillages a mile off!

[wyrdness]

Think you'll find the culprit of major diesel spillages are lorry drivers. They overfill their tanks on long trips to avoid having to stop on the way for a fill up.

Are these lorry drivers who spill diesel all over the roads related to those lorry drivers who complain about the price of fuel?

I saw a sticker on the back of a bike once that said, "If diesel's so expensive then don't spill it on the road"

[454697819]

one or two lorries might spill diesel, but remeber, a sealing cap is an mot requirment, so most lorries are spot on..

it could have been a car, or a motorbike carrying an open thing of diesel...

u never know...

[Jabba]

"If diesel's so expensive then don't spill it on the road"

Excellent =D>

[Marshall]

Yeah ive just been to Makro in wolves, and i saw that.

Not good at all

[kwak zzr]

where that pic was taken is a haven for HGV's its all industry in that area so i am always aware of the dangers. if anyone knows the area its nechalls lane, wednesfield, wolverhampton.

[creamerybutter]

Bloody Hell.

I hope the council sorted that quick.

[Marshall]

Bloody Hell.

I hope the council sorted that quick.

Doubt it

[creamerybutter]

I'm sure that I remember reading that with a spill that could cause injury the police have to block it off till is is cleaned up.

[jonboy]

When I last reported diesel to my local Council they took three weeks to respond and then said they'd had a look and couldn't see anything :roll: .


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[Stu]

I'm sure that I remember reading that with a spill that could cause injury the police have to block it off till is is cleaned up.

Could someone from the police in here please clear this up?

The confusion - not the spill :lol:

Should we report it to the police in future? or the new phone number 101 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4770079.stm

[Jabba]

Should we report it to the police in future?

If you think it's a danger to other road users, yes :thumbsup:

or the new phone number 101 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4770079.stm

You could do, but all that will do is screen the call and forward it to the highways authority. Better that you cut out the middle man and talk to the Council directly. It will be quicker that way and you can speak to someone who knows the area/road in question rather than a remote call-centre person in another part of the County. The highways authority is the County Council, not the District Council.

We've had no end of bother with the 101 Service; stuff that we would normally respond to as an emergency isn't being passed to use for 2 or 3 working days :roll:

[Iain51]

And a perfect example of why you should straighline roundabouts if possible. ie without inconveniencing other motorists. (And you're not going left... :roll: )

[creamerybutter]

And a perfect example of why you should straighline roundabouts if possible. ie without inconveniencing other motorists. (And you're not going left... :roll: )

From the look of the spill it could quite easily catch someone out of they were turning right and approached from the right of the photo and it would be quite difficult to avoid.

[Iain51]

I'm not saying it's failsafe, just playing the percentages.

[Peter Henry]

It appears to me that the only way to have avoided any contact with that particular spillage, was to navigate the roundabout in your family hovercraft! :shock:

[independentphoto]

I pop into the local cop shop looking startled and sounding really concerned "honest guv I watched me front wheel come past me" kind of thing. They send someone out and then arrange the road maintenance co (AMEY) to get it washed down and possibly restricted / closed whilst it happens. Don't speak to the council, that's a little futile. The cops really don't want to have all their bods along there later on just waving traffic around and measuring skid marks etc in the cold.

Cheers,

Garry :wink:

[Peter Henry]

Independant photo wrote:

measuring skid marks

Didn't know they had an Underwear Inspection Department! :P :P

(I know,I know very school boyish,but that's the way I am!) :?

[kwak zzr]

I pop into the local cop shop looking startled and sounding really concerned "honest guv I watched me front wheel come past me" kind of thing. They send someone out and then arrange the road maintenance co (AMEY) to get it washed down and possibly restricted / closed whilst it happens. Don't speak to the council, that's a little futile. The cops really don't want to have all their bods along there later on just waving traffic around and measuring skid marks etc in the cold.

Cheers,

Garry :wink:

thanks. will get straight on to the boys in blue next time :D

[kwak zzr]

will also check the road out tomorrow morning to see what its like.

[rigor]

Just a note on a similar thing that I saw a couple of weeks ago.

On the way to work, saw a looooong diesel spill, carried on for about 1 mile down this stretch of road. I was in the cage so, it didn't effect me too badly. But fair play to the council, they actually closed the road, covered it in that absorbant stuff they used, and left slippery road signs all over the place.

So sometimes they do the right thing, not often, but it does happen.

[kwak zzr]

its good to see that they do act on such dangers.

[Red ones]

When I last reported diesel to my local Council they took three weeks to respond and then said they'd had a look and couldn't see anything :roll: .


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A lot of Police forces deal with this very promptly - there is a response standard for them on this I think (hoping fraser will be along in a minute). Spill sneed to be reported to the Police not the Council (I think there is a technicality that makes it a Criminal offence not a Civil one) but i might be very wrong.

When I have reported to the Police they have always been prompt (especially if I said that I just passed it on a bike and I almost lost control!)

[Stig]

Last week I was on my way to work when both wheels slid sideways as I was going round the roundabout. How I stayed up I will never know. Looking at the road there was fresh diesel all the way round the roundabout and all the way up the road.

I carried on my way staying as far right as I could. I caught up with a police car that I saw in the distance up the road and gestured to them to pull over. Eventually they did. I told them about the diesel spill, and whilst he was giving my bike a very close inspection, he suggested that it was just the weather and that the diesel had come to the surface after the recent rain.

Now I have been riding for many years and am fully aware of what warm weather followed by rain does to the roads. This was not old diesel coming to the surface, this was a fresh diesel spill. I told him this to which he replied no it was just the weather. He warned me to change my number plate then got in his car and carried on the way he was going. He did not even bother to go and have a look.

Seemed to me that all he was interested in was finding something he could nick me for. :roll:

[kwak zzr]

thats not good. :(