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Blue72:
i would say they have a case to claim HOWEVER it will also come to light when investigated the actual speed, if and when she slid etc etc. Now im no maths genuis but a few sums using some basics laws of phyics seem to tell me that the so called ice or slide would have had to have accelerated her car to an imapct speed that the barriers couldnt take? OR that the barriers where held down with duck tape??
Time will tell and although she could get her claim, she could also get sued for damage to property or driving without due care???

floyd fan:
Doesnt matter if she was doing 10mph or 50, so long as she was within the speed limit for that road. If its a national speed limit road then the barrier should be able to take an impact based on that.

Banjo:
She must be a poor driver to hit it in the first place. It makes me laugh people want all this safety to allow for their crap driving, what happens next time when she's driving past a school  ?.

Mark Y:
It's always someone Else's fault  :twisted:

Mud-muncher1:

--- Quote from: V8MoneyPit on March 09, 2009, 12:36:42 ---
--- Quote from: Fruitloop on March 09, 2009, 11:53:55 ---Just read this and by the looks of the picture of the barrier they do have grounds for a claim, it seems the the barriers anchor point are not adequate for the job as they only look like they were only about 400/ 600mm deap with no solid structure behind them, speed wouldn't of be the factor of a case but the pushing weight of a vehicle against them would, in my opinion the barrier looks ok for a perdestrian bridge but not a road bridge and it makes you think how many other bridges in there area are of the same standards?

Jav.

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But what about her driving standards in the first place? My biggest concern is that she crashed in the first place and is now trying to blame someone else! If there had been crash barriers and her car had suffered damage from them, would she try sueing the Council because they were *too* strong???

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To be honest the woman's driving ability is not the factor of the crash, it's the barriers that are being questioned and as barriers for road use are tested extensively with 44 tone trucks hitting and slamming into them from all angles, the one in the article looks like if anyone over 18 stone man or let alone a car even pushing on it that it would give way and not do what it is intended to do by deflecting any objects that hit it


Jav

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