Living out in the Countryside too you have my sympathies, townies just won't get it. When you're on a narrow road with pieces of the edge broken off you've got to make a decision when someone comes around a corner (often in the dark or against low sun) and is flying towards you too quickly. You either stand your ground and let them hit the trailer or pull over a bit and risk damage to it. It's actually quicker and easier to do the latter rather than go through some month or year long insurance dispute along with the possibility of your premiums going up, loss of business due to trailer being off the road etc.
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I did complain to the council and threatened to make a claim, they came out and filled in the worst holes.
People just don't slow down, that's the problem. This is the door mirror collection from outside our entrance:
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This was caused by someone being shunted off the road and through the wall:
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The cause? Low morning sun rise, wet and cold shiny road. Driver didn't slow down even though they couldn't see; head on collision.
All those pics were from last Winter only and represent only a quarter of the carnage I see just within a few miles of my house. The other 75% I don't have pics of as I was driving. Just last week I saw a biker sat in a field, a few yard behind him jammed in the fence was his bike