On 21 abr, 14:54, The Todal
beeb.net> wrote:>> 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.
>
>> Any help is sincerely very welcome.
>
>
> 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.
Maybe, but this kind of messages can reach experts abroad, and some of
them have published documents or references that I shall appreciate.
> 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
> В 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.
In my experience, accidentes happend because:
1. People
2. Things (cars or any other mobile or non mobile)
3. Places, like Petrol Stations. I focus my phenomenology here.
> 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
I agree.
> 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.
Good idea.
> c) expert witnesses. There are none who specialise in petrol station
> accidents so you'd have to find out what professional journals they read.
