"Tesco killed my husband" - your thoughts?

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I'll start by saying I feel dreadfully sorry for Mrs Wright. It's devastating to lose your loved one.

However, as much sympathy as I feel for this woman, I can't help but see it's blame culture gone a little too far. Yes he wouldn't have died had he not broken his hip, but then he wouldn't have fell if he didn't have two artificial limbs surely? The strip is bright yellow. Hardly a hidden trip hazard. Negociating it with two artificial limbs was always going to be a risk? He wouldn't have been able to feel it under foot, so it would've affected his balance that way.

I don't know what I make of it. Her husband wasn't a fit man, regardless of what she says in the interview. I suppose he may well have been fitter than he had been previously due to his recently successful kidney transplant.

I hope he rests in peace and his wife finds it in her heart to be able to let go.
 
I agree whilst its very sad its not a case for suing. I think a line has to be drawn under this sue culture and people need to take some responsibility for themselves. We've all tripped at some point and haven't felt the need to sue someone.

This lady is probably still very upset and looking to apportion blame.
 
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He was physically disabled, not blind.........

Goodness knows it's tragic. But an accident.

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My sentiments entirely. He wasn't "fit", certainly not in the way his widow implies.

It would seem that in today's society, there is no longer such a thing as an accident. Someone seems to always have to take responsilibity. No wonder banks and insurance companies are going under!
 
I'm thinking of suing my local council for Post Traumatic Stress, after picking up yet another dead cat off the road at the weekend..........
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This is a hard one - I feel for the lady, however her hubby had 2 prosthetic limbs, a recent transplant and diabetes. So I don't think you can pin his death on Tescos.

I think people ought to be able to walk over brightly coloured metal strips, as trolleys bashing into people (and cars!) could cause equal problems.
 
The rule in law is that you take your victim as you find him - so if the injured party is exceptionally prone to injury then tough luck on the defender. However, were Tesco negligent here? Apparantly there was a chip in the metal strip but it is not alleged he fell over this part. I suspect legal action has been threatened and Tesco have, somewhat unadvisedly, tried to head it off with a low offer of compensation, and that it will be settled out of court anyway.

I actually feel pretty strongly about this type of thing as my father suffered from late onset diabetes and was well on the way to getting an amputation or two because of it. It was entirely his own fault he suffered from it, due to an unhealthy lifestyle and failure to follow medical advice, he was born perfectly healthy. I saw the way that everything becomes someone else's fault with him and yes, he eventually died of a heart attack too.

The thing is, the average person would not have suffered any injury from this fall. It is not said what he weighed, but I would hazard a guess he was also very overweight. Its why I can have a nasty fall from my horse at the weekend and be totally uninjured, and my colleague at work, who is perhaps 5 or 6 stones overweight, can slip on leaves and break her wrist. It would be a lot better if this woman could realise her husband's death was as a result of his many medical problems rather than looking for others to blame.
 
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but I would hazard a guess he was also very overweight

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Unlikely if he was walking on two prosthetic limbs....
 
The picture on the front of the paper is only chest upwards but he looks slim to me. However, I would go as far as to say weight is rather irrelevant in this instance.
 
I am sorry for anybody loosing a loved spouse but what ever happened to taking personal responsibility for your actions? Did Tesco force him to walk over that strip on the ground with his two prosthetic limbs? In the article (that you find when clicking the link), there's a photo of Mrs. Wright behind the strip of one of the trolley bays but the trolley bay next to it doesn't have a strip, if he didn't believe himself capable of passing the strip of a certain trolley bay, who forced him to choose to get a trolley in that particular trolley bay?
If he choose to want/believed he needed a particular trolley from a particular trolley bay, isn't there any personal responsibility involved in making that choice/having that belief?

Maybe all stores, hospitals, libraries etc. should simply have a huge sign before the entrance or maybe even the entrance of the car park saying Entrance is at your own risk!


I will admit that if it is true what it says in the article, about that Mr. Wright sometime from breaking his hip to dying in hospital by a heart attack the day after the accident, "was the first to suggest getting solicitors involved", it crosses my mind that maybe he walked over the strip thinking he might fall and would be able to sue Tesco but just didn't think that by doing so, he was actually at risk of loosing his life.





My grand-mother was living in a home for elderly people when she died, the rug beneath her bed had some device in it, so that the staff would be alerted to that she had left/was trying to leave her bed. One day she tried to get out of bed without alerting the staff, she fell and broke her hip and later died in hospital by complications caused by her broken hip. Personally it never crossed my mind to sue anybody, to me it was her choice to try and get out of her bed the wrong way and what happened was an accident.

In general, this whole have an accident and then put the blame on anybody but yourself, just seems like madness to me. I'm not saying I never believe it to be correct to receive compensation, I understand that sometimes money might help the situation for the person affected by the accident but to some degree I believe that accidents are simply one of those hazards that comes with living. It was at least nobody who told me when I was born, that life was guaranteed to be without hazards.

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When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was going to be about Tesco pushing some poor dairy farmer to suicide, as I know from the experience of a local farmer how they beat them down on price etc.
However, in this particular case I think it is totally without foundation, this was an accident, a very sad one, but an accident all the same.
 
Oooo Tesco are paying us 5ppl above the usual price you get from your dairies.

We're on an exclusivity contract with them. Our milk is collected by Wiseman and processed solely for Tesco. It's a great boom for farmers, given that we (as a medium sized outfit) send 2600 litres (minimum) a day.
 
Glad to hear it. I was thinking of a local farmer/cheese maker. Tesco started selling their cheese, tied them into contracts and then offered less and less money, drove them out of cheese making which was a shame as it was very good cheese! Was a few years ago, I think (hope) they are offering better deals now.
 
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I'm thinking of suing my local council for Post Traumatic Stress, after picking up yet another dead cat off the road at the weekend..........
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Why is that your local Council's fault? Did they run the cat over?
 
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He was physically disabled, not blind.........

Goodness knows it's tragic. But an accident.

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My sentiments entirely. He wasn't "fit", certainly not in the way his widow implies.

It would seem that in today's society, there is no longer such a thing as an accident. Someone seems to always have to take responsilibity. No wonder banks and insurance companies are going under!

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I agree totally here, as sad as it is, i find it ridiculous she would sue
 
Those things are a blooming nuisance. I once saw an elderly lady trip over one (thankfully she was okay) and I've almost tripped over them several times myself. The only supermarket I know of that is friendly to all users is my local Morrison's. Everything is flat - no raised strips, no kerb and just enough grain on the surface to prevent you slipping. I detest going to Asda. The walking areas are covered in those nasty strips and the ground is so rough, your arms are almost rattled off when pushing a trolley over it. Then the dozen or so speed bumps do nothing, but damage your car. The nearest Tesco is almost as bad.

To those of you supporting Tesco - what would you do if it had been a disabled and/or elderly relative of yours? It was a broken hip (due to a fall) that eventually led to the passing of my Gran. I think everything should be done to make places safer for those that aren't quite able.

My many sympathies to the man's family and I hope this makes other supermarkets think twice about using those strips.

 
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Why is that your local Council's fault? Did they run the cat over?

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LOL....AmyMay is being sarcastic. Tongue in cheek.
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I think this is very sad, and the family have my sympathies BUT it was an accident, pure and simple.
It's a shame that the word accident now only exists in the Dictionary of Obsolete Words
 
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Why is that your local Council's fault? Did they run the cat over?

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Because they don't have a policeman permanently stationed on the road to enforce the speed limit.

And because they don't have a council worker stationed permanently to pick up any roadkill, should the policeman fail in his task........
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I'm thinking of suing my local council for Post Traumatic Stress, after picking up yet another dead cat off the road at the weekend..........
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Why is that your local Council's fault? Did they run the cat over?

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LOL....AmyMay is being sarcastic. Tongue in cheek.
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And I'm not?!
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Companies often settle even if the case is 'weak' because settling is cheaper than defending an action.

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Quite often not. You would be amazed at the "Not Guilty" pleas we used to get. I have had 3 traps full of oriental coackroaches and the owner has still pleaded NG to an infestion - and one of them was the biggest b*gger I have seen in 25 years of practice - we photographed it and put it on the office wall!

It would be interesting to know if the matter has been reported the HSE under RIDDOR, whether a "No Win - No Fee" solicitor is sabre rattling.

Tesco usually mount a defence.

I shall scan my weekly copy of Environmental Health News when it arrives on Friday!

Paddy - used to registered as Portway.
 
QR My Nan tripped over a box of melons left right in the middle of the aisle and smashed her kneecap when she was in her 70s. She settled with the fruit shop out of court.
Wasn't a huge amount.
The case was that she was elderly and her eyesight was weak, and of course she wouldn't have been expecting a box in the middle of the aisle.

I agree the Tesco thing was an accident.
 
I live near to that branch of Tesco and refuse to shop there again until they put on anti-mugging patrols in the store. It is like a human zoo of the worst caricatures of the underclass; obese, tattooed, curb-chain wearing neanderthals in sportswear (the men are even worse) herding their feral children around the shop and teaching them basic lifeskills such as shoplifting and harassing the elderly.
 
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I live near to that branch of Tesco and refuse to shop there again until they put on anti-mugging patrols in the store. It is like a human zoo of the worst caricatures of the underclass; obese, tattooed, curb-chain wearing neanderthals in sportswear (the men are even worse) herding their feral children around the shop and teaching them basic lifeskills such as shoplifting and harassing the elderly.

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Ooo I used to live in Longton, the parentals still do. I live near between Audley and Crewe now.
 
Whilst you cannot exclude liability for loss of life or limb on your land - I think the widow needs to realise that it was cardiac arrest that killed him rather than the injury. In this case I would be mortified - but all that I would be looking for would be for them to ensure these "strips" are maintained and safe.

Very sad
 
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