*“I know a woman recently who was walking along a footpath and there was fake grass, and she basically smashed her head, broke two ribs and punctured her lung.”*
I don’t even know.
AJurassicSuccess on
Using a banana skin for an article on slips, trips and falls is crazy haha
Hardtoclose on
Leaving out banana skins won’t help!
Willing-Departure115 on
The journalist does all the work to do the FOI’s for each council and make a map in a data wrapper… but provides zero context? Like, Dublin City Council presumably has the area with the largest daily footfall of any council in the country, no? So you’d maybe want to look at accidents per 100,000 people in it on an average day (residents, commuters, workers, etc) ?
It stands to reason that Dublin City would have more claims for people falling over than anywhere else…
Bruncvik on
I do quite a bit of running, and I spend a month each summer on the continent. There, I run on various surfaces, including cobblestones, without any issue. When I came back, I usually have one or two nasty falls before I get used to Dublin footpaths again.
Probably the biggest issue I’m experiencing is that the footpaths here tend to sag in places, which eventually leads to tears in the asphalt, which then turn to holes you can put your entire foot in. It’s almost as if the builders didn’t realise they needed extra-deep base on the soggy ground here.
Ush_3 on
They’ve replaced huge swathes of footpath with very frictionless slabs, I’ve noticed, like something from the continent.
My great-uncle, over from the states, slipped and fell on a bridge in the city where they’d done that. Broke his hip, absolutely fucked him up.
I don’t understand it.
soenkatei on
I genuinely nearly went through a manhole in town the other day, I’m really not surprised
fullmoonbeam on
Tree roots have paths in shite in places but sure it’s cheaper to pay the odd claim than carry out surveys and then go round and fix the issues.
29September2024 on
What if:
Footpaths are actually repaired?
No injury payouts.
Create jobs to ease unemployment.
Improve city ambiance.
Spending so much in injury payouts sounds suspicious. Someone is/are making money and definitely not the victims.
Masamune_ff7 on
Theirs a place I go with my job that has had claims cuz of potholes in the yard. Surgeries required. HSE site. They haven’t fixed it. People in charge don’t give a fuck. This is probably similar. people getting hurt in known danger spots.
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How?!
*“I know a woman recently who was walking along a footpath and there was fake grass, and she basically smashed her head, broke two ribs and punctured her lung.”*
I don’t even know.
Using a banana skin for an article on slips, trips and falls is crazy haha
Leaving out banana skins won’t help!
The journalist does all the work to do the FOI’s for each council and make a map in a data wrapper… but provides zero context? Like, Dublin City Council presumably has the area with the largest daily footfall of any council in the country, no? So you’d maybe want to look at accidents per 100,000 people in it on an average day (residents, commuters, workers, etc) ?
It stands to reason that Dublin City would have more claims for people falling over than anywhere else…
I do quite a bit of running, and I spend a month each summer on the continent. There, I run on various surfaces, including cobblestones, without any issue. When I came back, I usually have one or two nasty falls before I get used to Dublin footpaths again.
Probably the biggest issue I’m experiencing is that the footpaths here tend to sag in places, which eventually leads to tears in the asphalt, which then turn to holes you can put your entire foot in. It’s almost as if the builders didn’t realise they needed extra-deep base on the soggy ground here.
They’ve replaced huge swathes of footpath with very frictionless slabs, I’ve noticed, like something from the continent.
My great-uncle, over from the states, slipped and fell on a bridge in the city where they’d done that. Broke his hip, absolutely fucked him up.
I don’t understand it.
I genuinely nearly went through a manhole in town the other day, I’m really not surprised
Tree roots have paths in shite in places but sure it’s cheaper to pay the odd claim than carry out surveys and then go round and fix the issues.
What if:
Footpaths are actually repaired?
No injury payouts.
Create jobs to ease unemployment.
Improve city ambiance.
Spending so much in injury payouts sounds suspicious. Someone is/are making money and definitely not the victims.
Theirs a place I go with my job that has had claims cuz of potholes in the yard. Surgeries required. HSE site. They haven’t fixed it. People in charge don’t give a fuck. This is probably similar. people getting hurt in known danger spots.