A crash that saw a car flipped on its side during the heatwave was not caused by the road surface, the council has said. Bristol City Council said it had not received any reports suggesting the road surface had any influence on the crash in Lockleaze last week.
A man was taken to hospital after a crash last Sunday (July 17) that flipped the car on its side. The driver collided with two parked vehicles on Dovercourt Road just before 3pm.
A Bristol City Council spokesperson said: “We have gritted Dovercourt Road to maintain the surface during the recent hot weather and continue to monitor roads that are vulnerable to the high temperatures.
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"There are no other roads which are causing the council concern at this time and we have not received any reports suggesting the road surface had any influence on the crash at Dovercourt Road.”
BristolLive understands that monitoring figures showed that road surface temperatures stayed below the critical point of 56 degrees at which melting can occur. The council's words came after a resident claimed the crash had been caused by the road surface melting, causing the car to slide.
"I drove down that road one hour before and my back slide out and I was only doing 15mph," he claimed. "You could clearly see it was very recent [that the road had been resurfaced] as it still had lots of loose gravel on top."
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