Barricade Suggestions - Cars Hitting House
Discussion
My parents house is on a 90° bend on an A road, set back around 10m
We have had the odd issue over the years with cars crashing into the fence but this year it's been four times and the last one has hit the house - going through the wall
Highways Department are useless and are working on the basis that it's safest for the drivers if they crash through our fence rather than hit a hard council barrier
That's all well and good but we're sick of paying for the fence and the hassle of replacing it particularly when so many just drive off
Mum doesn't feel safe there anymore and has said can I put concrete blocks on the front
The council won't be happy as its prominent location and a listed building but frankly f
k them
I semi-jokingly said perhaps we could use ton bags of sand and mum thinks that's a good idea !
The other choice is to park 4 scrap cars there - it might persuade the council to push the Highways dept to do something
Suggestions - sensible or otherwise
I like the idea of a spiked palisade of telegraph poles pointing at the road but could be quite messy pulling bodies off it
We have had the odd issue over the years with cars crashing into the fence but this year it's been four times and the last one has hit the house - going through the wall
Highways Department are useless and are working on the basis that it's safest for the drivers if they crash through our fence rather than hit a hard council barrier
That's all well and good but we're sick of paying for the fence and the hassle of replacing it particularly when so many just drive off
Mum doesn't feel safe there anymore and has said can I put concrete blocks on the front
The council won't be happy as its prominent location and a listed building but frankly f
k themI semi-jokingly said perhaps we could use ton bags of sand and mum thinks that's a good idea !
The other choice is to park 4 scrap cars there - it might persuade the council to push the Highways dept to do something
Suggestions - sensible or otherwise
I like the idea of a spiked palisade of telegraph poles pointing at the road but could be quite messy pulling bodies off it
Depends on how much visual impact you can get away with and how permanent it can all be.
Using lengths of scrap rail (as in the stuff trains run on) as both the posts and rails of a fence with tight post spacing always seems to make a robust structure yet quite discreet, especially if painted the right colour.
Set the posts *deep* into the ground, bolt it all together, job done. Should last effectively forever and most things will struggle to dent it. Back it with angled support posts if you need to deter the really heavy stuff.
Grow a hedge if it needs hiding or stick wooden panels in front.
Using lengths of scrap rail (as in the stuff trains run on) as both the posts and rails of a fence with tight post spacing always seems to make a robust structure yet quite discreet, especially if painted the right colour.
Set the posts *deep* into the ground, bolt it all together, job done. Should last effectively forever and most things will struggle to dent it. Back it with angled support posts if you need to deter the really heavy stuff.
Grow a hedge if it needs hiding or stick wooden panels in front.
This happened with my old bungalow at the bottom of a very steep hill on a 90 degree bend.
Local chav bought an old banger from the scrapyard at the top of the hill, tried to bump start it on the hill, when it wouldn't start, legged it leaving it rolling into my double garage door.
Caused £3k damage, ordered to pay it off at £40pm.....stopped paying after three months.
Sold the house a year later.
As far as I am aware no further incidents thirty five years later.
Local chav bought an old banger from the scrapyard at the top of the hill, tried to bump start it on the hill, when it wouldn't start, legged it leaving it rolling into my double garage door.
Caused £3k damage, ordered to pay it off at £40pm.....stopped paying after three months.
Sold the house a year later.
As far as I am aware no further incidents thirty five years later.
Mate of mine bought a house in the sticks but garden backs onto a A road just after a long sweeping bend - it's a 40 limit but often drivers go thro at much faster speeds - typically 60 but if I had to take a guess at what speed you could go round it if you were really on it it would be 80+ mph
The previous owner had got sick of cars punching thro the fence and fking off leaving him to cover the cost of replacing the fence sections. so invested in a multi stage protection system.
It's got a two section fence, lower fence (approx 3 feet high) is hiding/covering a small raised grass bank behind which is a decent 8 ft hedge all the way round with a 4 ft fence on the top - only interesting element is buried just inside the bank is 60 feet of armco barrier.
Cars that loose it on the bend thro going too fast now just strip a few panels out of the lower fence but make it no further
They normally don't look very pretty after the impact but the don't break thro it and it doesn't ping them back into oncoming traffic.
It's been tested a few times since and proved very effective
The previous owner had got sick of cars punching thro the fence and f
king off leaving him to cover the cost of replacing the fence sections. so invested in a multi stage protection system.It's got a two section fence, lower fence (approx 3 feet high) is hiding/covering a small raised grass bank behind which is a decent 8 ft hedge all the way round with a 4 ft fence on the top - only interesting element is buried just inside the bank is 60 feet of armco barrier.
Cars that loose it on the bend thro going too fast now just strip a few panels out of the lower fence but make it no further
They normally don't look very pretty after the impact but the don't break thro it and it doesn't ping them back into oncoming traffic.
It's been tested a few times since and proved very effective
breamster said:
In the tradition of PH here is an answer to a question you didn't ask!
In addition to any physical barrier stick a few reflective bollards up if there isn't anything there already. Cheap as chips and every bit helps.
or if everyone stuck to the limit...In addition to any physical barrier stick a few reflective bollards up if there isn't anything there already. Cheap as chips and every bit helps.
think of the children......
FourWheelDrift said:
That’s the sort of thing we have to stop people careering off the road into one of our fields. As a temporary barrier the OP may well sidestep the listed buildings issues. A decent impact will still see them moved, but it takes a fair bit to do so. Having filled a reasonable number of gabions, I wouldn’t recommend them. They’re hard work to fill and can’t imagine dealing with any impact damage would be fun, especially if they were stitched together and you needed to empty to replace one.
On a bad corner near us the wall was recently rebuilt with quite a lot of steelwork in it. Looks in keeping with its surroundings but the first person to hit it is going to discover it’s quite solid.
Mr Magooagain said:
I may be wrong but if it’s a listed building then any barriers will need listed consent for installation.
The OP seems to suggest it's going to be built anyway. Although it's not technically the right way to go about it I would imagine I'd do the same if it had happened more than once.Edited by Richard-D on Saturday 7th December 17:56
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