LEGAL QUESTION

[Jim Eh.]

Note to krank City of Saskatoon pays all pot hole damage to cars as long as it is reported.  ( we have a pothole hot line )

Can I send you our potholes? Oh ... wait ... we wouldn't have anything to drive on then. Nevermind

[niles500]

brian, I hope you didn't pay that ticket, that's ridiculous

[Red Rider]

My suggestion would be only to travel on highways that don't have coaches in the travel lane.

[usbusin]

My little incident was not a couch, but just as bad . . . .

I had just entered the I-10 freeway near Palm Springs,CA in my Freightiner truck conversion.  I was in the right hand lane going 55mph.  The shoulder dropped-off and there were 2 or 3 lanes of traffic to my left.

All of a sudden a large black object 4' x 8' was flying through the air at windshield height.  I could not get on the shoulder because of the drop-off and couldn't change lanes to the left because of traffic beside me.  All I could do was slow down.  The object hit me in the right-front bumper and fender. 

Thank God, the Freightliner has a very heavy steel bumper and the fenders are very heavy fiberglass.  The object was a pick-up truck bed liner!!!  It hit and went under the truck and got stuck.  We finally found a place to pull off and the wife and I managed to pull it out from under the truck. 

No damage other some black marks on the fender!!  My wife said I "kept real cool" in keeping the truck under control.

Never did see the vehicle that lost the bed liner.

GaryD

[digesterman]

Don as Jon said 'not enough info', were people setting on said couch? If so did a TV fall off said vehicle too? If so were people on couch watching the TV?
Did you purposely hit said couch on said HWY because you didn't like the program they were watching,,,,,, yeah much more info needed.

P.S. Why are you throwing perfectly good couches onto the highway in front of buses?

[boxcarOkie]

Uh .... "Yes, no, no, Yes, no, and I do not understand?"

For the most part, Y'all (Okie talk) did real well with one notable exception.  A few have assumed that it was "I who hit the couch" and that is incorrect.  According to the data I have, "if you hit it, then you are responsible."

Had a plumber drop a ladder in front of me in Amarillo Texas one time, and I did take that out, but have never hit a couch, occupied or not.

BCO

[belfert]

LOL who is held responsible for rocks on a highway when one flies up and breaks a windshield I been through this a 1000 times with my trucks people calling the office saying my trucks threw a rock and broke their windshield  ? where did that rock originate from  

I have been behind plenty of construction vehicles on the highway where my vehicle was being hit with sand/dirt/rocks.  As soon as I switched lanes the debris quit hitting my vehicle so it was coming off the construction vehicle.

[Oonrahnjay]

A few months ago I was driving (pass. car) on I-485, an Interstate ring road around Charlotte NC.  It is partially near town and partially pretty rural.  When you leave the urban areas and go further from town, the overhead road lights suddenly end.  I had just driven into the dark when I saw something dark in the road ahead -- I jerked the steering wheel and missed ... a box spring for a bed/mattress in the road.  (I very much DON'T want to run over someone who's wrecked a motorcycle and is lying in the road).  I pulled over at the next exit and called the Highway Patrol.  That thing was big enough and hard enough to really cause damage and even cause a wreck that could extend to a chain-reaction.  The lady on the phone didn't seem particularly interested.  Well, I tried.