{"id":556,"date":"2014-09-25T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roadsandtransport\/maintaining-roads\/trip-hazards-and-manhole-covers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:18:06","slug":"trip-hazards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/maintaining-roads\/managing-the-network\/trip-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Report trip hazards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/160\/2019\/08\/Trip-2.png\" alt=\"A 20p piece with extra information showing that it is about 20mm high\" class=\"wp-image-6052\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all trip hazards that are reported to us meet the criteria required to instigate repair. We will not ignore any reports, however, we must prioritise our funding on safety as we cannot afford to fix all of the problems that are reported to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will repair trip hazards where there is a vertical deviation of more than 20 mm from the adjacent surrounding area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trip hazards include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>uneven or broken flags, blocks or paving stones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>dislodged or damaged kerbs, channels or edgings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>damaged steps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you start<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are&nbsp;reporting an emergency that is very likely to present an imminent threat to life or serious injury or serious damage to property please instead call us on&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:03451551004\">0345 155 1004<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the trip hazard has already been reported on our map, please use the option to \u2018Add me to this trip hazard\u2019 instead of creating a duplicate report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-dcc-primary-button\"><a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({&apos;buttonEvent&apos;: &apos;Information page&apos;});\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/report-a-problem\/map\/map_src\/trip\/\">Start now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report trip hazards Not all trip hazards that are reported to us meet the criteria required to instigate repair. We will not ignore any reports, however, we must prioritise our funding on safety as we cannot afford to fix all of the problems that are reported to us. We will repair trip hazards where there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":8178,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 19:51:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24828,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556\/revisions\/24828"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}