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On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:56:55 +0100
Phil Cook wrote:
Sounds like something that was written by a personal injury parasite, sorry,
solicitor.


Oh dear, have we all become so jaded by the ambulance chasers? The
sentiment behind the statement is that accidents happen because people
take their eye off the ball. Accidents don't just happen, they are
caused by lack of attention and or poor planning.


Of course they can just happen. A high speed blowout for example can happen
for any number of reasons completely out of control of the driver - a tyre
manufacturing fault, some debris blown onto the road, a recent pothole.
Anyone who thinks there's always someone to blame is either a legal
parasite or living on another planet.

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:37:15 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
No, I said the people I'm mainly dealing with, who have the social
networking issues, aren't the Asians in arranged marriages (from Hayes,


So who are the people you're mainly dealing with then?

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In message , at 14:06:30 on Fri, 5 Oct
2012, Phil Cook remarked:
Tyre manufacturing fault. Faults don't just happen. Caused.
Debris blown on the road. Debris left lying about. Caused.
Recent pothole. It would have to be pretty big to cause a blowout, so
unreported, unseen or uninspected. Caused.

Accidents don't just happen.


And obviously, for a driver to fail to neutralise all those risks, makes
him stupid. It would take Boltar only a few minutes of his valuable
time.
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Boltar wrote in message ...

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:56:55 +0100
Phil Cook wrote:

Oh dear, have we all become so jaded by the ambulance chasers? The
sentiment behind the statement is that accidents happen because people
take their eye off the ball. Accidents don't just happen, they are
caused by lack of attention and or poor planning.


Of course they can just happen. A high speed blowout for example can happen
for any number of reasons completely out of control of the driver - a tyre
manufacturing fault, some debris blown onto the road, a recent pothole.
Anyone who thinks there's always someone to blame is either a legal
parasite or living on another planet.


The statements are entirely compatible - the accident caused by the blowout
may not be under the control of the driver, but the tyre manufacturing fault
is caused by the manufacturer, the debris is down to whoever left it where
it could be blown on to the road, and the pothole is down to poor planning
of maintenance by the highway authority. But these may not have legal
liability, if the foreseeability of the accident was too remote, or the
manufacturing/inspection regime was deemed satisfactory.

Peter.



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