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Loading Bay-Dropped curb height

Reported via desktop in the Roads and Carriageways category anonymously at 18:55, Tue 1 October 2024

Sent to Oxfordshire County Council 1 minute later

I had a nasty accident on my bike a few weeks ago, the loading bay's curb was too high and my bike flipped as I moved into the bay, I was under the impression that legally loading bays' should have a dropped curb of 6mm max. I ended up at A&E as I hit my head. Is it possible for you to look into this and come back to me? It is a really busy roundabout and this is another accident waiting to happen I think. Thank you

Council ref: ENQ241019083

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  • Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.

    State changed to: Investigating

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 18:56, Tue 1 October 2024

  • Thank you for your enquiry. A site visit will be conducted tomorrow

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 18:48, Thu 10 October 2024

  • Thank you for bring your painful and unfortunate experience to our attention and I trust you are fully recovered. The location outside the store is actually a footway where loading and unloading is permitted under certain time constraints and is marked out by the intermittent white coloured markings. The legal permission for a vehicle alighting on a footway principle is the same for on footway vehicle parking, where a vehicle is permitted to park on the footway within certain limits imposed but it is still technically a footway. The same is at the location you had your nasty incident.
    As it is a footway and not a loading bay it will be treated a footway with a kerb upstand in this case between 40mm to 50mm. I am not sure where the 6mm upstand comes from, in Oxfordshire this is only specified in the construction of 4.0m to 4.5m diameter roundabouts and the specified kerb upstand for a dropped kerb is maximum 15mm and is common in residential vehicle and other accesses. Also there is no specified kerb upstand particular for loading bay and is left the designer and safety auditor discretion.
    The current kerbing arrangement with the area has been in operation for several years and this is the first reported incident of this nature. Therefore we will take note of your experience and listen to the cycling groups in Oxford to see if this is now becoming a problem or was a unfortunate incident.

    State changed to: Investigation complete

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 09:35, Fri 18 October 2024

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