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bergclimber34

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1,481 posts

9 months

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Cretinous, reversed lightly into some metal stillages at work yesterday, bumper damage.

My point is this, they are stacked, if I had hit them harder they could have toppled and done serious car right off damage.

Car park is a gravel area at side of factory, stillages were placed on the entrance road to the car park and then leading into what should be a staff car park and vehicle turning delivery area which because this crap firm won't expand is just full of stock leaving a narrow path for delivery trucks fork lifts etc, lorries cannot deliver and park on the ro5ad it's so bad.

My opinion these stiilages should not be parked on an access way to a car park?

Drumroll

4,190 posts

136 months

Tuesday
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bergclimber34 said:
Cretinous, reversed lightly into some metal stillages at work yesterday, bumper damage.

My point is this, they are stacked, if I had hit them harder they could have toppled and done serious car right off damage.

Car park is a gravel area at side of factory, stillages were placed on the entrance road to the car park and then leading into what should be a staff car park and vehicle turning delivery area which because this crap firm won't expand is just full of stock leaving a narrow path for delivery trucks fork lifts etc, lorries cannot deliver and park on the ro5ad it's so bad.

My opinion these stiilages should not be parked on an access way to a car park?
Rant over. What do you want us to do/say?

Dixy

3,328 posts

221 months

Tuesday
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Get your popcorn here. OP this may not go how you hope

redstar1

164 posts

7 months

Tuesday
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Drumroll said:
Rant over. What do you want us to do/say?
They can't drive a car and are just looking for someone to blame. Maybe take some more lessons?

Lo-Fi

1,073 posts

86 months

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Drumroll said:
bergclimber34 said:
Cretinous, reversed lightly into some metal stillages at work yesterday, bumper damage.

My point is this, they are stacked, if I had hit them harder they could have toppled and done serious car right off damage.

Car park is a gravel area at side of factory, stillages were placed on the entrance road to the car park and then leading into what should be a staff car park and vehicle turning delivery area which because this crap firm won't expand is just full of stock leaving a narrow path for delivery trucks fork lifts etc, lorries cannot deliver and park on the ro5ad it's so bad.

My opinion these stiilages should not be parked on an access way to a car park?
Rant over. What do you want us to do/say?
I'd say ' what does "serious car right off damage" mean?'

The Gauge

5,129 posts

29 months

Tuesday
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I predict this thread will become brutal, if it hasn’t already

Riley Blue

22,421 posts

242 months

Tuesday
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bergclimber34 said:
My opinion these stiilages should not be parked on an access way to a car park?
That may be so but what are you expecting of PH contributors?

bergclimber34

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1,481 posts

9 months

Tuesday
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Simply put, what could happen if the stillages fell onto a car. My bad, did not explain fully.

They are stacked three high, basically metal frameworks to store stuff on, my fault, was not concentrating, reversed into them..

Point being they could topple onto the car, and worse as they are heavy.

They are dumped on a private exit road from what should be a car park/delivery area, but is a dumping ground for stock as we don't have space.

Basically stuff dumped on an access road has potential to topple, cause accidents, how would insurance for me deal with it, if it wrote a car off say

GasEngineer

1,543 posts

78 months

Tuesday
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bergclimber34 said:
Simply put, what could happen if the stillages fell onto a car. My bad, did not explain fully.

They are stacked three high, basically metal frameworks to store stuff on, my fault, was not concentrating, reversed into them..

Point being they could topple onto the car, and worse as they are heavy.

They are dumped on a private exit road from what should be a car park/delivery area, but is a dumping ground for stock as we don't have space.

Basically stuff dumped on an access road has potential to topple, cause accidents, how would insurance for me deal with it, if it wrote a car off say
If the company is proved negligent, your insurance company may well pursue them for recovering their payout to you.

Bill

55,954 posts

271 months

Tuesday
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You drove into something and damaged your car. But you're wondering what would the result be if you drove into it hard enough to make them topple??? Think you'd struggle to prove their negligence in stacking them outweighs your negligence in crashing.

Drumroll

4,190 posts

136 months

Tuesday
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bergclimber34 said:
Simply put, what could happen if the stillages fell onto a car. My bad, did not explain fully.

They are stacked three high, basically metal frameworks to store stuff on, my fault, was not concentrating, reversed into them..

Point being they could topple onto the car, and worse as they are heavy.

They are dumped on a private exit road from what should be a car park/delivery area, but is a dumping ground for stock as we don't have space.

Basically stuff dumped on an access road has potential to topple, cause accidents, how would insurance for me deal with it, if it wrote a car off say
Are they not designed to be stacked?

I ask again what do you expect us to do or say?

You have concerns you raise with the company,.

Drumroll

4,190 posts

136 months

Tuesday
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In other news, I almost reversed into my Recycling bin the other day, apart from being more careful reversing what do the PH collective think I should do?

Runes

5,063 posts

232 months

Tuesday
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Bill said:
You drove into something and damaged your car. But you're wondering what would the result be if you drove into it hard enough to make them topple??? Think you'd struggle to prove their negligence in stacking them outweighs your negligence in crashing.
Even if the negligence of the driver outweighs that of another person, it does not mean that that other person is not liable, only that the compensation recoverable by the driver might be reduced (as it might be even if the negligence of the other person outweighed the negligence of the driver). See section 1(1) of the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945.

Nurburgsingh

5,353 posts

254 months

Tuesday
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Drumroll said:
In other news, I almost reversed into my Recycling bin the other day, apart from being more careful reversing what do the PH collective think I should do?
I would start by having a stern word with your groundsman about where he leaves the wheelie bin and ensure he's more careful in future if he values his place in your employment. If he does it again thrash him, before the rest of the staff, and then set the hounds on him.

bergclimber34

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1,481 posts

9 months

Tuesday
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Was just a simple query based on a stupid accident, if they toppled over they would write a car off, meaning insurance might have to be involved, they are not in a storage area, they are dumped on an access road to a delivery area car park that is full of stock.

The incident was my fault, but if I was injured or the car was written off, surely there might be questions asked as to why there was stuff dumped on an access road? Regardless of whose fault it is?

Antony Moxey

9,840 posts

235 months

Tuesday
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Why don't you pre-empt any such incident by speaking to the site manager and asking them why they're stacking stuff outside of their yard, why there isn't a specific storage area and why there isn't a specific parking area. If the answer is there is, but it's full of stock, then you reply that in that case it isn't a SPECIFIC parking area. Go and ask your work, they'll have the answers, PH won't.

Freddie Fitch

179 posts

87 months

Tuesday
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Maybe I need a parrot but what's a 'stillage'?

redstar1

164 posts

7 months

Tuesday
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Freddie Fitch said:
Maybe I need a parrot but what's a 'stillage'?
It's a cage, like a pallet but with sides. The point of them is that they are designed to be stackable, on top of one another.

Riley Blue

22,421 posts

242 months

Tuesday
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I drove into a builders merchant's car park a couple of weeks ago; no marked spaces, no warning signs, just stuff all over the place at low and high level that would easily damage a car if driven into. It was the same at the next one I visited but I managed not to hit anything.

bergclimber34

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1,481 posts

9 months

Tuesday
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Invariably on here there are people who deal with stuff like this legally, insurers etc.

Thats all, was just a query. Moving on....