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What a tragedy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8462009.stm
🙁 tragic.
Please don't turn this into a 'debate' on whether schools should close or not.
When I was at school a mates older brother slipped and whacked his head on the wheel of a wagon and died walking home from school.
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No debate, but the local authorities will shut 'em down for sure during the next icy spell.
Obviously very sad.
Nothing to do with the school though. If the school had been shut, she could have done the same on the way to the local sledging spot.
guy at work ended up being bowled over by a sldge whilst taking pics of his kids sledging. broken collar bone and lots of plates & screws 👿
Very sad.
Saw a newspaper advert thing on charterhouse st in london saying, 'cyclist dies after crashing on icy road', hav'nt looked onto it yet...but, yes, when the weather is like this, people leave in the morning and never come back....tragic.
Poor child! Poor family! So unfair to all concerned! 🙁
Saw a newspaper advert thing on charterhouse st in london saying, 'cyclist dies after crashing on icy road', hav'nt looked onto it yet...but, yes, when the weather is like this, people leave in the morning and never come back....tragic
When it's sunny and dry people leave in the morning and never come back. Sadly cyclists crashing and children falling over and hitting their heads aren't things that only happen when it's icy. Whilst any death is obviously tragic for those closely involved, neither really even makes a blip on the overall accidental death statistics. It's entirely plausible that the snow and ice has resulted in less road deaths and that schools being shut makes it more likely for children to fall over and hit their heads.
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aracer- very true, but the 'cold' takes alot of bystanders, i for one, chose not to work on wednesday in london as a cycle courier because all it takes is one slip and thats that...it is, in my opinion to dodgy, and having gone back to work on thursday, fellow couriers said the morning was blatantly dangerous..i chose not to, but then again as you say, on any given day.
Only people to blame for this are the local authority, looked like it happened pretty close to the school. Local authority should grit the pavements close to the schools as a priority, more important there than town centres IMO. Don't usually like the litgation culture but in this case I hope they sue the council big time. About time the councils started to seriously think about what is expected of them.
Tragic, walking my kids to school yesterday after a light flurry of snow through the night it was ok but on the way back it had melted a little then froze with all the traffic and some areas were like glass. All that in a short period of time of probably just 10 minutes.
Don't usually like the litgation culture but in this case I hope they sue the council big time.
Why? So the council have to spend even more money on insurance an lawyers? That will help them employ enough people and buy enough grit next year won't it. Any pay out they make from their own budget or resultant insurance premium rise will just have a knockon effect of something not being done elsewhere. It won't bring the girl back.
Why? So the council have to spend even more money on insurance an lawyers?
No, so they actually get a wake up call and start acting responsibly. Seems they only ever react to public concerns when a big enough fuss is made to jolt them out of council La La land.
won't bring the girl back.
No sadly it won't but it may prevent an accident in the future in a high risk area like outside a school. As I said I don't like the litigation culture, if she'd fallen over away from the school I'd have put down to it down to a genuine terrible accident, but it shouldn't have been beyond the council to realise that somewhere like around a school needed clearing.
Can you explain why the death of a child near a school is more deserving of compensation than the death of a child elsewhere? Why is it only a "genuine" accident if it occurs nowhere near a school building?
I'd have thought they were both equally tragic to be honest.
No, so they actually get a wake up call and start acting responsibly. Seems they only ever react to public concerns when a big enough fuss is made to jolt them out of council La La land.
Oh, so such a claim won't actually result in them having to employ lawyers and cost them money then? Good idea - I'm sure they had no idea before that snow might make pavements slippery. After all we've all seen the stories of people they employ to clear the roads etc. not bothering to do any work at all and spending their time at home with their families while the councils sit on big stockpiles of salt.
Don't usually like the litgation culture but in this case I hope they sue the council big time.
clearly you are encouraging litigation culture.It happened on the street when the vast majority of the country was covered in ice. Just how is anyone to blame?
This is such a sad incident but if anything can be classed as a tragic [b]accident[/b], then this is sadly one. 😥
My dad lost a mate in similar circumstances something like 60 years ago - tragic for all those directly affected, but do you know what, sometimes bad stuff happens to the best people.