Hidden sleeping Policemen

[Otter Spotter]

Today travelling from St Austell to Chard, via Plymouth, I managed to cross a level crossing at around 20MPH, but didn’t realise there was a bloody great sleeping policeman straight after the crossing not before! Van felt as though it took off and when we parked up at the next stopped realised both fresh water and waste water pipes were now leaking water big time.
Now booked into workshop in Chard to get the van looked at.
Tonight I am wearing my ‘Numpty’ hat

 

[Wagoneer]

Sincerely hope the cold water feed to your kitchen tap is still leak free ??? Believe you recently replaced that connection with a JG coupling.

Sounds like the rest of the system needs a bit of tender loving care

 

[DavidG58]

That would annoy me as much as driving into a pothole, surely speed control devices shouldn’t do damage at so much below the speed limit

Send the bill to the council

 

[Tombola]

There is one on the front too at New Brighton...just before you reach Morrisons right after the roundabout...couple of red lines painted on floor easily missed...clunk smash tinkle..

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

There should have been a warning of some kind Dave or do you need new specs.

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[Otter Spotter]

There should have been a warning of some kind Dave or do you need new specs.

Both, hun

 

[Stealaway]

The French are buggers for them but there's no point complaining to them.

 

[HKF]

The French are buggers for them but there's no point complaining to them.

Too true! There's one at the entrance to our nearest village and it's lethal at anything more than 10mph...even in a car. Bounces the hell out of you!!

 

[Tea Bag]

Hi.
Also little road from Praia de Mira to Barra ,3-4 miles LOADS of them,well marked....but.....came in hot to one and it shook some stuff off the shelf in the toilet room. Easy done,the houses down there sell Veg and i was looking at sacks of super BIG potato's thinking do we need a bag..
Tea Bag. as in ..Not potato bag.

 

[Lenny HB]

Hope there is no damage to the tanks or it could get expensive.

I got caught out by that big one on the Shewsbury inner ring last year, you just don't expect speed bumps on a road with a 50mph limit, no warnings. Reckon I would have done some damage if I hadn't had full air suspension.

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[Crazylegs]

I hope you didn’t have bikes on a rear mounted carrier, if you did leaking hoses could be the least of your problems. Speaking to a motorhome repairer some year ago he thought the bike carriers were the work of the devil, as they can exert a lot of stress onto the rear panel when driving over bumps etc. He claimed he had repaired water damage on many motorhomes that carry bikes on the back.

 

[63720]

Today travelling from St Austell to Chard, via Plymouth, I managed to cross a level crossing at around 20MPH, but didn’t realise there was a bloody great sleeping policeman straight after the crossing not before! Van felt as though it took off and when we parked up at the next stopped realised both fresh water and waste water pipes were now leaking water big time.
Now booked into workshop in Chard to get the van looked at.
Tonight I am wearing my ‘Numpty’ hat

You have to question the thinking of road planners when they introduced a speed reduction device on the exit from a level crossing. Imagine what could happen if someone broke something like a spring and the tail back straddled the railway. I know they have yellow boxes painted but they often get ignored and the worst case scenario should be planned for. Around my area there are heavily painted lines at the entrance to villages but they're across all the road so even on leaving a restricted area you get your teeth rattled. These 'experts' probably live far away from the chaos they inflict on others.

 

[DJA]

I still vividly remember driving along a wide tarmac road through the desert in the UAE with Sand to the right of me and Sand to the left of me as far as i can see. I was travelling at about 50/60mph as I passed on my righthand side an oasis ie about 6 palm trees in a group just off the road and could see well over a mile ahead on the left side of the road was a little village. Quite why there was an unmarked sleeping policemen next to the Oasis I don't know but I will say I was impressed that the Datsun I was driving coped amazingly well with the massive bang than occurred.

 

[cyberyacht]

The second one as you go into Port Solent, for those that use it as a ferry stopover, is particularly vicious. It does shake up the rubbish when I do a tip run.

 

[BILL 875]

I though there was a max height of 100mm, could be wrong though, answers please .

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[Otter Spotter]

Update;
waste pipe from bathroom has 2 jubilee clips hooding a joint together, the screw heads have been resting against the blue freshwater feed pipe. The jolt going over the SP caused the jub/heads have punched a hole in the feed pipe. That appears to be the only leak I hope.
another job on the list for Wissel for next month.

 

[Brains]

There is one on the A389 at Dunmere, just to the north of Bodmin, which is equally lethal (as the local garages are well aware.)
The council could have fixed it back in 1990 when the rail line was closed, but they prefer to keep it as it slows down the traffic.

It's fine for the locals who know about it, but for the hundreds of thousands of holiday makers who use that road every year it comes as a big surprise. Almost every caravan going over it grounds.

This is the only warning, which as you might be doing a fair speed on the downhill dual carriageway if often way to late.

 

[simbadog]

Today travelling from St Austell to Chard, via Plymouth, I managed to cross a level crossing at around 20MPH, but didn’t realise there was a bloody great sleeping policeman straight after the crossing not before! Van felt as though it took off and when we parked up at the next stopped realised both fresh water and waste water pipes were now leaking water big time.
Now booked into workshop in Chard to get the van looked at.
Tonight I am wearing my ‘Numpty’ hat

Lostwithiel I expect? That one is lethal, I always creep across

 

[Brains]

Lostwithiel I expect? That one is lethal, I always creep across

By the station ? That was all resurfaced last time I crossed over a couple of months ago

 

[mitzimad]

if you want really harsh speed bumps the private road down to my cousins house has them at 45 degrees across the road so one wheel at a time you only underestimate them once

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

Both, hun

At least you can't blame me for a change....

 

[Otter Spotter]

Caravan and Motorhome solutions in Chard, a great help and very quickly made a temporary repair to get me on my way, this morning. Please check review section for my review.
What a sound set of guys for the West Country

 

[Dave Scadding]

You have to question the thinking of road planners when they introduced a speed reduction device on the exit from a level crossing. Imagine what could happen if someone broke something like a spring and the tail back straddled the railway. I know they have yellow boxes painted but they often get ignored and the worst case scenario should be planned for. Around my area there are heavily painted lines at the entrance to villages but they're across all the road so even on leaving a restricted area you get your teeth rattled. These 'experts' probably live far away from the chaos they inflict on others.

There’s a couple of specific words here that clearly don’t apply “thinking and planning” !!!

 

[ambulancekidd]

Both, hun

Yikes Dave, can you imagine what would have happened if Hazel had been driving, the damage would scare any insurance company.
For those who do not know Mrsambulancekidd let me explain, photo finish in a Zeppelin race comes to mind.

 

[simbadog]

By the station ? That was all resurfaced last time I crossed over a couple of months ago

Ah no. I meant St Blazey! Oops

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