The muddy, slippery road teaches drivers a lesson during the rainy autumn season, including during the harvest season. It follows from this that the application of mud mainly occurs on country roads next to agricultural fields – and as it turned out, not cleaning up the mud applied by agricultural machines can also have consequences.


Magyar Közút Nonprofit Zrt. a Haon.hu to his interest, he emphasized: according to the legislation, it is the responsibility of all road users to prevent contamination of the road surface. “The law prohibits pollution in general, it does not distinguish between mud, crops, motor and diesel oil, manure, road garbage, etc. between” explained the road operator.

If, despite this, the road is muddy somewhere, it is cleaned by hand or with a broom, which – depending on the magnitude of the work – costs the company HUF 100,000. In such cases, the Magyar Közút – if the culprit is unknown – files a report, but if the person who messed up the road is still on the spot, they are asked to clean it up. Their road inspectors regularly visit the 31,000-kilometer national road network.

The road manager also indicated that public reports related to the application of mud on the phone the county dispatch services, and in writing it is E-Customer Servicei.e. it is received on the Magyar Közút internet interface.