RedM Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 I managed to spin the car 90 degrees in my work car-park. In manual third from about 5mph and only lightly pushing the loud pedal. I asked about getting the place gritted and was told that, because of some management buy-out thing, we were only being allowed to use the car-park out of the kindness of others. In effect we are squatting in there! Volvo tomorrow then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 another problem is that if they try to grit it and somebody still falls over then they are at fault, if they dont bother and somebody falls over then they have no come back against them. JB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 another problem is that if they try to grit it and somebody still falls over then they are at fault, if they dont bother and somebody falls over then they have no come back against them. JB This is exactly what I was told when I worked in Huntingdon, they did't want to risk being sued. The way society is now, what a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pig Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 what a joke. cant do anything now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 they grit it all here, theres bit grit bins all over the place, so many hills though they'd be mad not to at least try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 why would you want to grit it? means you loose the fun of a slidy car park ! I'm always on at our guys at work here to stop gritting our roads in winter time.... then there would be loads of fun to be had whilst driving into and from work ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 From what I understand by supplying the use of the car park they are legally have a duty of care. Whether they like or not. This also means that the "Belongings left here at the owners risk" type of signs have no legal standing. You can't negotiate the law by telling someone beforehand that you won't be abiding to that law. That's how Burglars and the like get away with sueing the poeple they're robbing when they hurt themselves in the process, due to the owners of the property not providing the duty of care when someone is on your property. As I say that's how I understand it and from my extremely limited legal knowledge that I was taught at College. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Had exactly the same thing at my place last year, the car park was lethal. Took me 5 minutes to tiptoe over to the door without falling over. I asked why it hadn't been gritted and the next day a sign appeared on the gate saying "caution slippery" or something. That was obviously easier than getting off their arses and gritting it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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