Safe roads??

[wmrcomputers]

Nothing really bad, but at the crossroads of prospect road and read avenue / blakiston street today, someone dropped a full 5litre container of new engine oil. A car hit it before I spotted it and oil leaked all over the junction.

The container was then moved by someone else onto the pavement where it continued to leak until I removed it.

What shocks me is that a traffic warden and 2 police cars all spotted it when the container was in the middle of the road. The one police car I watched steer around it. Aren't these people meant to have road safety in mind??

Nothing was done about it until 3 hours later after I made the call to highways and they came and cleaned the mess up with oil soak sand.

I just wonder why someone especially of the uniformed variety would see the potential danger of an oil spill on a busy crossroads and do nothing about it. Thank heavens it didn't rain before I reported it as I'm sure it could have caused a small accident.

 

[tek-monkey]

Its hardly the safest junction to start with!

 

[AA Silencers]

I'm sure if a Police motorcyclist had run through it he would have reported it once he'd picked himself and his bike up from the kerb.

Your average bobby probably wouldn't report it as he'd then have to complete 6 hours of associated paperwork.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Its hardly the safest junction to start with!

Very true mate.

I'm sure if a Police motorcyclist had run through it he would have reported it once he'd picked himself and his bike up from the kerb.

Also true

 

[henryscat]

What shocks me is that a traffic warden and 2 police cars all spotted it when the container was in the middle of the road. The one police car I watched steer around it. Aren't these people meant to have road safety in mind??

Nothing was done about it until 3 hours later after I made the call to highways and they came and cleaned the mess up with oil soak sand.

I just wonder why someone especially of the uniformed variety would see the potential danger of an oil spill on a busy crossroads and do nothing about it. Thank heavens it didn't rain before I reported it as I'm sure it could have caused a small accident.

Unfortunately the Police routinely ignore all sorts of things and then wonder why people have no respect for them....

A little while back (and I think I posted about it) a van driver was queuing at the Asda lights having passed me on his phone, a police car stopped for the pedestrian crossing so pointed van driver out to the copper who said "Thank you" then drove off and ignored it.

 

[gdavies]

Your average bobby probably wouldn't report it as he'd then have to complete 6 hours of associated paperwork.

Surely paperwork would have been toned down with modern day equipment.

SPot on that you called it though WMR can only imagine seeing a cyclist or sorts hitting a patch of oil as cars whizz past

 

[Biggus Dickus]

It seems to me that the Police force only react to a problem if they are tasked to it or have a "crack down"

I am employed in a postion whereby I have to pass on a lot of incidents to the constabulary

Drunken children, animals wandering the highways,broken or damaged traffic lights,drug useage ad naseum

And regularily get the reply its nothing to do with us or what do you want us to do

 

[Edd209]

cheers wmr , i regularly have to ride me ol bone shaker through that junction and you have probably saved me a huge repair bill.
big skill !

 

[wmrcomputers]

Your welcome