illegal Speed Cushions

by SJJS12

12 Feb 2010

I have complained on numerous occasions to my local council (South Somerset) - that a number of speed humps in our area break the rules, concerning height and vertical face - some of these are up to 2 cm in vertical face.....
Plus some are less than 500 mm in length - which causes considerable Suspension damage......
I have largely been ignored and now wish to take this further

These "machine breaking monstrosities" need to be either removed or modified before my latest new car is destroyed by driving over them even at a snails pace ?
Ours fail (b) and (d) by some considerable margin !!
Some are made of rubber and are acceptible - some are made of tarmac and are not

From The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999:

(a) each face of it across the carriageway of the highway in which it is constructed is at right angles to an imaginary line along the centre of that carriageway;

(b) it has a minimum length of 900 millimetres measured parallel to an imaginary line along the centre of that carriageway from the point where one face meets the surface of that carriageway to the point where the other face meets the surface of that carriageway;

(c) the highest point on it is not less than 25 millimetres nor more than 100 millimetres higher than an imaginary line parallel to the centre line of that carriageway connecting the surface of that carriageway on one side of the road hump to the surface of that carriageway on the other side of the road hump and passing vertically below that point; and,

(d) no vertical face of any material forming part of that road hump exceeds 6 millimetres measured vertically from top to bottom of that face.