Pothole Caused Damage To Car And City Had To Pay Repair Costs
My friend was driving down a road in Gresham when she hit a pothole with her 1998 VW Jetta. She heard this loud crash and pulled over to see what kind of damage was on her vehicle.
She said that when she got out the whole front axle was snapped and needed to be towed to the nearest foreign repair shop! The weirdest part of all of this is that she didn’t even bother to file a claim with her insurance company, instead she took pictures of the pothole and filed a claim with the city of Gresham (or Portland) and they agreed to pay for the total cost of the repair to her car.
During the time she was getting her car repaired I let her borrow one of my cars, but I imagine that she was reimbursed some amount of money for being out a vehicle and missing work.
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how can you sue a city for damages to your car when it’s your fault? It’s people like that that make taxes so expensive. Admit you weren’t watching where you were driving, hit a pot hole and ruined your car. Even if the city is supposed to fill in pot holes, it doesn’t mean that you couldn’t necessarily avoid them.
Potholes wreck your suspension and struts. My mother in law was driving down the road going to a highway and hit this pothole (I hit it too a few days earlier) and it pretty much blew out her tire. She went back to Les Schwab and they replaced her tire for free. A few days later the pothole was completely filled in.
imagine if you could just get the city to pay for all of the stupid things you run into.
POTHOTLES CAN CAUSE SOME SERIOUS DAMAGE TO YOUR VEHICLE. IF YOU HIT A POT HOLE CONTACT YOUR CITY AND ASK THEM TO REPAIR THE POTHOLE RIGHT AWAY.
I can’t even count how many pot hole’s I’ve run over. While I’m thankful that they haven’t caused any visibile damage to my vehicles, I truly believe the city and highway departments need to step up maintenance on the streets. So many of them are run down and broken with huge grooves that fill with water when it rains (streets and highways) that it’s such a big liability to have them go unrepaired.
It’s great to hear that the city would cover the dmage to the vehicle due to a pot hole because honestly, it shouldn’t have been there. Taxpayers pay for road repair through their hard-earned tax dollars and do not expect to have to file an insurance claim with their own company because the city couldn’t repair an obvious fault in their roadway.
pot holes aren’t something that just pops up unless a road was severely damaged due to a sinkhole or contstruction or something was ripped out. The city absolutely needs to take care of pot holes, grooves, ruts, broken asphalt, etc in order to have a safe road. DOT needs to be out there at all times maintaining these roads, streets and highways.
potholes can bend wheels pretty easily too.