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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 water0 -
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If it bounced out then it's an over full barrowIf the barrow broke then it's failure to maintainIf the barrow pusher is working in or near to live traffic then they should have guarding and/or TM in placeIf it fell off a digger loading the lorry then it's an overfull bucket/inadequate guarding
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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 builders0 -
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 Beeblebrox0 -
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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I keep a towel in the boot.Ultrasonic wrote: »I'm clearly missing something :huh:
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