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Hit rock in Dublin port tunnel

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  • 21-12-2017 4:54pm
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    Golf4GolfGti
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭


    Travelling northbound the other morning 200m into the tunnel. I'm driving the speed limit and a medium size rock around the size of a tennis ball comes into vision. I did not have time to swerve and my front left ran over it. I got the car to first exit off the motorway and tyre was flat as a pancake

    Have I any recourse here with my insurance company or Dublin Port Tunnel? Or mark it down to bad luck....?


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    #2
    KellyXX
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭KellyXX


    If you hit a rock on any road what recourse do you have?


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    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    Comprehensive policies do not cover the bursting of tyres in isolation


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    Golf4GolfGti
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭Golf4GolfGti


    KellyXX wrote: »
    If you hit a rock on any road what recourse do you have?

    Is that you answering me or being a smart c'#/ ?


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    KellyXX
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭KellyXX


    Golf4GolfGti wrote: »
    Is that you answering me or being a smart c'#/ ?

    It's a question. Imagine curious. I never hit a rock in the road or in a tunnel. I don't know if there is a difference. Is there?


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    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,731 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Hi OP.

    Non smartsrse point of view here.

    I would have thought the owners and operators of the tunnell - Transport Infrastructure Ireland would have a duty of care to the users of the tunnell to ensure their safety.

    I would contact them and let them know of the incident. It would be of critical importance for them to try to establish where the rock came from.

    If it fell off the back of a truck that is one thing, but if it was part of the structure of the tunnell, then that could be a very serious isssue that needs urgent addressing.

    As for your tyre, I would take it on the chin, so to speak, and chalk it up to bad luck.


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