you can drive them with a motorcycle license and they are cheaper to make. originally, they were cheap transport. the morgan is about nostalgia
is Chris Harris actively making YouTube videos again
He has never been off of YouTube. He does videos for Collecting Cars and a podcast where if a subject was going to be raised/talked about you would think it would have been (Maybe it has - I don't listen to car based podcasts!)
I’ve never really understood 3 wheelers, a 4th wheel isn’t going to add a huge amount of extra weight, relative to the 3 billion times better handling you’d get with a 4th wheel.
Not all driving is about getting the absolute best time you can or go the fastest speed possible on any road. They are fun to drive, that is all. Haven't driven a modern one but had a go in a very old one with the twin engine sticking out the front and I liked it but then at that time I did drive a Caterham 7 as my only car for 3 years (8,000 miles a year) so I may have a different perspective of cars than most people.
you can drive them with a motorcycle license
Given a full category A motorcycle license is harder to get than a car license, that’s not really a selling point any more.
I'm assuming that the BBC were negligent, but not enough to require HSE action.
So then we're looking at pain and suffering, medical costs (private, presumably) including rehab, cost of potential future medical costs/care, and loss of earnings/future earnings for a TV personality on substantial contracts.
If you think it sounds excessive, just scale it back down to the average wage.
there’s clearly something about his injury that’s being kept quiet from the media.
...which seems sensible because it's none of our business?
The nature of out-of-court settlements means that we will probably never get a full rundown.
Does smell like something cooked up to keep both parties happy.
(I’m sure old top gear had presenters in helmets and roll cages when they were arsing about in reliants and doing slow roll overs. IMHO Can’t see them sending someone out without a helmet.)
If you want to find out what they are like you can hire one for a day from Morgan for £350. My neighbour did this last month and he found it interesting but would never buy one. He was given a detailed briefing about how ‘skittish’ they can be on damp roads. He is an expert fabricator and welder (aerospace/ F1 motorsport standard). He wasn’t impressed with some aspects the build quality.
He and his wife didn’t wear helmets even though they have their own.
BBC seemed keen on helmets last time they were pissing about in the Morgan
Not sure how much an open face one would have helped, mind.
Does smell like something cooked up to keep both parties happy.
95%+ of all legal disputes are settled out of court. Both parties being happy is a good thing.
Can’t see them sending someone out without a helmet
The rumours were an open face helmet, and he ended up with awful facial injuries....
Saw a guy park one in the back of a fiat 500. She stopped , he didn't probably only hit her at 10mph . I was the next car back and could see it unfolding in slow motion. Enough time to say brake, brake....BRAKE. bang .
Flipping thing did a little jump and loads of bits expolded off it. I would not want to be in one in any sort of high energy impact.
Looked cool though , problem is it's a car and your brain has a set level of expectations of what a car can and can't do. Talented drivers can get a feel for a car very quickly before it becomes a danger . For most it takes hours of driving to get to grips with the chassis dynamics, brakes , engine , gearbox and steering. Some never do.
But being advised not to try something, then doing it anyway. That's just dumb.
I only read one report on this but he’s obviously pretty disfigured facially. Car rolled. Report said was only doing 20mph (which is quite possible if you’re turning super sharp to try to get it to slide). Also mentioned counselling for witnesses (it was clearly pretty horrific) but also that it took 45 minutes for ES to arrive - I’m slightly surprised they didn’t have an onsite paramedic and ambulance - most mountain bike events have it, cost would be negligible compared to total production costs and they’ve had a previous incident.
Might not be insurance company involved - BBC self-insures for many things. If you’re a £6bn turnover business there aren’t many events that are existence threatening and it removes a huge amount of admin.
ES to arrive – I’m slightly surprised they didn’t have an onsite paramedic and ambulance
They do or at least the convoy I seen following them did.
Interesting that everyone is assuming negligence... three wheelers have a reputation as bad handlers for a reason, and there is such a thing as bad luck. But if bad luck happens at work you may still be compensated for it
If you are setting someone up to drive a known unstable open top three wheeler, you only give them an open face helmet and they end up with disfiguring facial injuries, I'm pretty sure that's a dictionary definition of negligence.
HSE law about risk assessment and negligence is complex, it's pretty clear it's not enough to just leave it to the person to work out, or even to spell the risks to them and let them choose. There is a duty to consider the complexity of the decision and the competence of the individual to understand the advice and decide based on it.
Beyond that there's still a duty to ensure advice / procedures are being followed. In our training for managers at a former job there's an example of Dave
a/ Dave's a roofer on a large housing build project. He works well, follows procedures and always wears his PPE / fall arrest devices as mandated and trained by the site rules. One day at the end of his shift he realises he's left his hammer on the roof and nips back up without getting kitted out, slips and falls.
b/ Dave's a roofer on a large housing build project. He's reknowned for not following the rules; he knows he should wear his PPE / fall arrest devices as mandated and trained by the site rules but regularly doesn't and has been spoken to by management about it. One day at the end of his shift he realises he's left his hammer on the roof and nips back up without getting kitted out, slips and falls.
Daft as it sounds, there could be considered negligence by the company in both, but more so in b/
IDK the situation of the Top Gear case but did they do enough to protect him 'from himself'?
@theotherjonv Have you got Dave's number please. I can't find a roofer for love nor money and it sounds like he might have some time on his hands... 🙃
