another tree injury on msn such a shame

[predator]

TV star denies park safety breaches - UK News - MSN News UK

 

hope this never happens to anyone ever shame

[Breezeblock]

act of god ?

[felixthelogchopper]

It will come down to whether or not reasonable precautions were taken against such incidents, such as regular assessments of the trees and other possible hazards.

[RobRainford]

Not nice to hear. But the tree failed under strong wind conditions. Don't want to sound morbid or disrespectful, but why be around trees in strong winds. Bit like the Dunham Massey incident a few years back, around old trees in bad weather isn't a good mix.

[scotspine1]

Looks like Anna Ryder Richardson's dream life has turned into an absolute nightmare.

[hazzygawa]

It's a shame in society that where there is blame there is a claim.

 

It's got to be someone's fault now if the weather farts a bit and something happens.

I do not know the whole story so there is probably more to this, but...

[felixthelogchopper]

Not nice to hear. But the tree failed under strong wind conditions. Don't want to sound morbid or disrespectful, but why be around trees in strong winds. Bit like the Dunham Massey incident a few years back, around old trees in bad weather isn't a good mix.

 

Problem is that the general public are lacking in foresight or commonsense about such things. We look for hazards as a matter of course in our working lives and this inevitably spills over into our leisure time but with people whose exposure to 'the great outdoors' is minimal, there just isn't the nous. As this is a paying attraction, the onus is very much on the owners to provide a safe environment. The legal arguments of all this have been explored in the thread about the National Trust Felbrigg Hall tragedy a while ago.

[WorcsWuss]

Problem is that the general public are lacking in foresight or commonsense about such things. We look for hazards as a matter of course in our working lives and this inevitably spills over into our leisure time but with people whose exposure to 'the great outdoors' is minimal, there just isn't the nous. As this is a paying attraction, the onus is very much on the owners to provide a safe environment. The legal arguments of all this have been explored in the thread about the National Trust Felbrigg Hall tragedy a while ago.

 

Absolutely right, and I hope the little lad is all better now. But I have to say though, I always make a point of looking up and around in winds, even in the car. It's no one else's responsibility to look out for my children or myself but my own.... It's about time the legal system reflected this and drew a line under the insistence on making someone responsible for everything which happens.... I fail to see how it can be anybody's fault someone gets injured if a branch falls off a tree in high winds, other than the person getting injured by it for not taking sensible precautions about where they were standing. Common sense, or the lack of it, by any injured party needs to become acknowledged as the primary cause of accidents again.

We [as a population] expose ourselves to unecessary danger these days purely as a result of the assumption that because we're protected by a poorly judged legal system, bad things won't happen because someone is responsible.

Remove that false sense of security and I'm sure accidents like this would become even less common as individuals began to exercise their own sense of self preservation a bit further... Personally, the knowledge that someone will get sued if my child becomes permanently disabled by accident is not sufficient to cause me to expose them to those risks.... The general population would do well to work on that basis a bit more frequently...

[Pedroski]

^^^

[Pasty Muncher]

Well said, that man!

 

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