Disabled women to pay £13k in compo
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Me and my room mate were walking along the other day and an old fella was coming towards us on one. I moved out the way onto the grass to allow him through, Yet he decided to try and drive over my roommate instead making her move aswell! He Gave us a right dirty look too. For the sake of steering around her... I should have slapped him on his forehead as he passed us
Not as i dont mind these scooters the attutide of some of the old foke on them is disgraceful (not all of them though!) Been hit a few times by them after it not even my fault, and the dirty look and the abuse i get from them would but some chavs to shame! Suppose cranky old people and the power the think they get on scooters is a not good compo.
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So you're working, someone crashes INTO YOU stopping you being able to work for several months, maybe having a painful operation to fix damage and months of pain and recouperation, but its heartless to sue the moron who did it to you?
The thing that seems to be missing in the article is it says the woman PREVIOUSLY claimed that someone hit her stationary scooter, sending her one into this employee. But doesn't say what she's claiming now, by saying "previously claimed" it sounds to me like she was BS'ing and passing the blame, but later on she changed her story and it was her fault.
But shoddy journalism doesn't seem to actually have that part included, I just can't see why you'd use the term "previously claimed" unless, well, her story changed later on.
Who knows, then again the store SHOULD have insurance to cover their employee's who get injured on the job and they should have specific insurance to cover injury from people in scooters if its store policy to allow them in.
If the worker didn't get anything from her employee's and is being screwed, what choice do they have, its not their fault they can't work after being injured. Though it sounds to me like the store is just as culpable and this is the kind of story where you'd usually here of the employee getting a huge insurance payout from the supermarket.
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Reverse the roles then.
You've had your knee injured and now you can't play football anymore, or go to the gym, or run etc.
You would walk out of the court thinking that £13,000 wasn't enough.
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And what sort of person would you be if through your own negligence you injure someone enough that they are awarded £13,000 in compensation? and appear to take no responsibility for your actions?
She has the nerve to come out with utter crap like "It puts me in a vulnerable position - do I ever go shopping again?" in a pathetic attempt to make her appear to be the victim in all this. Yeah you can go shopping, insurance wouldnt be a bad idea and looking where your going wouldnt hurt either.
"How many people drive these scooters? We can't just sit down and take this." yeah, chance of her getting off her lazy arse would be a fine thing.
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What about showing some remorse to the victim?
I wonder what injury was sustained to get a 13k payout.
150kg with rider at 1.8m/s has a momentum of 270N/s, it could easily harm someone.
or worse
what are the implications if one of these hit a shelf system in the supermarket, and the whole shelf fell on somebody ??
worst case scenario granted but think like this...
and you get the idea. Surely the solution to this is that they should need mandatory insurance ?
she did the crime she should pay the fine... Theres a women round my way that does about 15mph on the pavement in her cripple car, if she was to hit someone its gonna hurt.
I once stopped an old dear from tripping over on the pavement, she was doing a sort of trip run that would have ended in a fall, i scooped her up and she told me to "get my hands off her" i think i told her to eff herself i was raging i couldn't believe it.
I once stopped an old dear from tripping over on the pavement, she was doing a sort of trip run that would have ended in a fall, i scooped her up and she told me to "get my hands off her" i think i told her to eff herself i was raging i couldn't believe it.
it is absolutely ridiculous that they ride those monsters on the bloody path, dont they go a good 40mph aswell?
I liked the jugdement and i am willing to bet that this is how the disabled woman was driving for it to smash into a trolly hard enough to cause injury
They are a menice sometimes and need to made an example of
That was my initial thought as well. If you had to stop work due to the injury it actually turns into something quite serious.