Accident in store

hundredk

peachyprice wrote: »

I was referring to Juliescott who has a mirror behind the fruit & veg in her local supermarket, not OP, the question was aimed at her, not OP.

If the mirror was a display mirror that should go behind the display common sense would say OP should have avoided it.

I realise that. The point is it's not relevant to what happened with the OP. All we know regading that is what the OP has posted. Whereever the mirror was in a store open to the public, it should have been in a position where it wouldn't fall on anyone. You don't expect to go into a supermarket and have to negotiate 7x3 mirrors as a hazard. The common sense and responsibility should be with the store.

What if the customer had a disibility and could not apply common sense, or was visually impared etc. Not saying OP is in that situation but making this point to highlight why it is the stores resonsibilty to ensure the environment is reasonably safe.

juliescot

love_my_2_boys wrote: »

do you all wear socks and sandals by any chance, lovl xxxxx

I have no idea what everyone wears - why do you ask?

hundredk

peachyprice wrote: »

It didn't fall on her, she knocked it over.

The mirror fell on OP. The reason for the fall was because OP moved an item on the shelf, dislodged the mirror and made it fall....but it did fall.

The mirror should not have ben in such a position that it was possible to dislodge.

juliescot

peachyprice wrote: »

I was referring to Juliescott who has a mirror behind the fruit & veg in her local supermarket, not OP, the question was aimed at her, not OP.

If the mirror was a display mirror that should go behind the display common sense would say OP should have avoided it.

You seemed to imply in your previous post that you would not find mirrors in a supermarket. I merely pointed out that my local fruit and veg shop has them.

juliescot

peachyprice wrote: »

It didn't fall on her, she knocked it over.

No - she moved something which caused the mirror to fall. Not the same at all

peachyprice

juliescot wrote: »

You seemed to imply in your previous post that you would not find mirrors in a supermarket. I merely pointed out that my local fruit and veg shop has them.

No I didn't, I implied that you wouldn't find mirrors on the shop floor in a supermarket, I didn't imply there were no mirrors at all. See:

A mirror, on the shop floor, in a supermarket, supposed to be there? Oh come on, since when were there mirrors in a supermarket on the shop floor, a dress shop maybe, but a supermarket,

No - she moved something which caused the mirror to fall. Not the same at all

And OP moving something which caused the mirror, which was 7 x 3 ft and she could not fail to miss, to fall is not the same at all as a mirror falling with no input.

Blacksheep1979

juliescot wrote: »

Should the mirror be able to or expected to fall?
If so the supermarket should have a sign which said - do not touch anything.
In which case if the OP had done so then she would have been at fault

I'm fairly sure that the op is not blind - so unless they have a sub average IQ they must understand that if two things are touching each other if you move one then there is a good chance the other will move. I'm also guessing that she may understand that big heavy things hurt when they fall on you, if not before then she does now...

peachyprice

hundredk wrote: »

The mirror fell on OP. The reason for the fall was because OP moved an item on the shelf, dislodged the mirror and made it fall....but it did fall.

The mirror should not have ben in such a position that it was possible to dislodge.

And common sense says OP shouldn't have have moved something that would cause a huge mirror to dislodge, she should have told the shop staff to move the mirror before grabbing whatever caused it to move, if she had any sense at all.

She has as much respobsibility for her own actions as the shop does to make sure the shop is safe. If the mirror had been placed on a shelf and was concealed from OP until she removed something from the shelf it would have been a completely different scenario.

juliescot

peachyprice wrote: »

No I didn't, I implied that you wouldn't find mirrors on the shop floor in a supermarket, I didn't imply there were no mirrors at all. See:







And OP moving something which caused the mirror, which was 7 x 3 ft and she could not fail to miss, to fall is not the same at all as a mirror falling with no input.

Apologies I thought that you meant you wouldn't find them in a supermarket at that part of the shop floor didn't realise you meant physically on the floor.

You originally stated "It didn't fall on her, she knocked it over."

Which she didn't

juliescot

peachyprice wrote: »

And common sense says OP shouldn't have have moved something that would cause a huge mirror to dislodge, how did she know the mirror would move? She may have thought it was fixed to something she should have told the shop staff to move the mirror before grabbing whatever caused it to move, if she had any sense at all.

She has as much respobsibility for her own actions as the shop does to make sure the shop is safe. If the mirror had been placed on a shelf and was concealed from OP until she removed something from the shelf it would have been a completely different scenario.

But the supermarket has a duty of care which they appear to have been negligent in.