| Re: Accidents in Petrol Stations for Legal Expertwitnessing in Spain |
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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: The TodalThe Todal Date: Apr 21, 2008 05:54
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> Do not worry. Fortunatelly, this is not a football match with
> hoolingans, but a survey for an Expert Witnessing report. I hope to
> find a way to compare accidents in Patrol Stations of different
> countries considering traffic, architecture an technical elements,
> signals and walkers behaviours.
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> Any help is sincerely very welcome.
>
> http://www.miguelgallardo.es/atropellos
> and
> http://www.miguelgallardo.es/gasolineras
You aren't likely to obtain any useful help in usenet/newsgroups. The
best you could expect would be to find one person who has had an injury
in a petrol station.
In English law, if someone is injured by a vehicle in a petrol station
exactly the same principles would apply to an injury in a car park or on
a highway. The driver of the vehicle would be criticised for failing
to keep a proper lookout and would probably be held liable. If it could
be shown that a pedestrian ran in front of the vehicle without looking,
then the driver of the vehicle would either be held blameless, or there
would be contributory negligence.
If you want to know how many accidents have happened in petrol stations
and in what circumstances, you can try asking
a) the owners of petrol stations
b) solicitors who represent claimants. You can do this by an
advertisement in the Law Society's Gazette or perhaps by emailing APIL
(Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) to ask if they are willing to
ask their members for feedback.
c) expert witnesses. There are none who specialise in petrol station
accidents so you'd have to find out what professional journals they read.
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