Damage from debris in road

vaio

Joe_Horner wrote: »

It depends how it escaped - if they'd followed all reasonable precautions then they're not negligent.

Say, for example, it had fallen from a wheelbarrow a few seconds before -perhaps when the barrow bounced in a pothole that the council knew about - and the barrow pusher had just pushed the barrow off the road before returning to collect it, only to have the driver come through - too fast to stop - and hit it. There would be no negligence there.

If it bounced out then it's an over full barrow
If the barrow broke then it's failure to maintain
If the barrow pusher is working in or near to live traffic then they should have guarding and/or TM in place
If it fell off a digger loading the lorry then it's an overfull bucket/inadequate guarding
Unexpected local gravitational changes I'll give you but I doubt there are any other circs that would hold water

Iceweasel

Come on lads and lasses - only 7 more posts to go to hit tonight's target. :rotfl:

Joe_Horner

vaio wrote: »

If it bounced out then it's an over full barrow

Or a pothole left by the council. And don't say the pusher should've avoided it if the drivers can't

If the barrow broke then it's failure to maintain

or a metalurgic fault - it doesn't amount to negligence if you don't carry out NDT on a wheelbarrow.

If the barrow pusher is working in or near to live traffic then they should have guarding and/or TM in place

Agreed, so it rolled when it landed. Not negligent to make sure all your rocks have flat sides :P

If it fell off a digger loading the lorry then it's an overfull bucket/inadequate guarding

Digger driver had a sudden stroke (with no history) and, despite his heroic efforts to control the situation, twitched the controls slightly causing it to fall

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Unexpected local gravitational changes I'll give you but I doubt there are any other circs that would hold water[/QUOTE]

In that situation any claims would be against the Vogon Demolition Fleet, not the builders

googler

Iceweasel wrote: »

Come on lads and lasses - only 7 more posts to go to hit tonight's target. :rotfl:

Almost there.

vaio

Joe_Horner wrote: »

.....In that situation any claims would be against the Vogon Demolition Fleet, not the builders

I was going to nominate Dr Who

as a completely OT aside I once did some work on the house of Mark Wing Davey who played Zaphod Beeblebrox

Joe_Horner

vaio wrote: »

I was going to nominate Dr Who

as a completely OT aside I once did some work on the house of Mark Wing Davey who played Zaphod Beeblebrox

Now that's a proper claim to fame - the real Zaphod! Whatever happened to the original (and by far the best) Guide???

vaio

I'll fess up to remembering the first radio series, I was going to Tech on day release and our "light relief" from the sums & physics etc was General Studies, mostly politics but the lecturer taped the first episode and played to us. I wasn't a natural R4 listener but don't think I missed one after that.

As you say, it was "classic" in every sense of the word.

robatwork

Iceweasel wrote: »

I found this on the Insurance Hotline website:

Accidents Where You are the Only Driver Involved

If no other driver is involved, fault is generally assigned to you by default. There are a few situations where this might be the case. If you strike an empty car which is legally parked, you will be found at fault.

Slightly OT (not as OT as HHGTTG though) - I always understood that even if the empty car is illegally parked it's still your fault. So if you come around a corner and hit an empty car that is sitting astride the middle of the road it's your fault for not anticipating that around every corner could lurk a hazard.

I don't get the point of the word "legally" in the guidelines.

I keep a towel in the boot.

Ultrasonic

robatwork wrote: »

I keep a towel in the boot.

I'm clearly missing something :huh:

victor2

robatwork wrote: »

I keep a towel in the boot.

Ultrasonic wrote: »

I'm clearly missing something :huh:

You're not the only one.