Slipped on ice train platform

billyhead · 26-02-2020 09:12PM #1

I slipped on ice while about to embark on a train this morning. The platform wasn't fully gritted. I hurt my leg and hip. Nothing broken I hope and think. Would I have grounds for a claim against Irish rail.

Atlantic Dawn · 26-02-2020 09:13PM

What injuries did the doctor say you have?

johnayo · 26-02-2020 09:14PM

Hopefully not.

Blingy · 26-02-2020 09:14PM

Did you not realise it was icy?

mloc123 · 26-02-2020 09:16PM

Always somebody else's fault... :rolleyes:

ThewhiteJesus · 26-02-2020 09:16PM

billyhead wrote: »

I slipped on ice while about to embark on a train this morning. The platform wasn't fully gritted. I hurt my leg and hip. Nothing broken I hope and think. Would I have grounds for a claim against Irish rail.

Do Irish rail control the weather? They had grit down you just weren’t careful, so no.

billyhead · 26-02-2020 09:17PM

Blingy wrote: »

Did you not realise it was icy?

It was dark and wasn't visible. I didn't go to a doctor. I'm am hoping the pain subsides but the leg is very sore on my right side and when I fell I banged my shin off the bottom edge of the door frame so the shin is grazed and sore aswell.

Darc19 · 26-02-2020 09:17PM

Definitely.

Probably about €2million

Maybe ask for €5 million

Sure why not. It's not as if anyone has to take personal responsibility and open their eyes.

Also, next time it rains have a slip and blame the council for not drying the paths for you.

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physioman · 26-02-2020 09:18PM

billyhead wrote: »

I slipped on ice while about to embark on a train this morning. The platform wasn't fully gritted. I hurt my leg and hip. Nothing broken I hope and think. Would I have grounds for a claim against Irish rail.

Probably but you shouldn't.

Summer2020 · 26-02-2020 09:18PM

Cop onto yourself will you. If you’re not injured and at a loss of time in work etc then stop looking for a payday. People like you are the reason all of our insurance premiums have gone through the roof.

billyhead · 26-02-2020 09:18PM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Do Irish rail control the weather? They had grit down you just weren’t careful, so no.

Were I slipped it wasn't gritted and this was the part of the platform from where you step into the train.

Summer2020 · 26-02-2020 09:19PM

billyhead wrote: »

It was dark and wasn't visible. I didn't go to a doctor. I'm am hoping the pain subsides but the leg is very sore on my right side and when I fell I banged my shin off the bottom edge of the door frame so the shin is grazed and sore aswell.

Ah you poor thing. You grazed your shin. You sound like a whingy child.

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washman3 · 26-02-2020 09:20PM

Can you sue Met Eireann.....:)

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billyhead · 26-02-2020 09:20PM

Summer2020 wrote: »

Cop onto yourself will you. If you’re not injured and at a loss of time in work etc then stop looking for a payday. People like you are the reason all of our insurance premiums have gone through the roof.

Wrong I am injured. Theres pain and grazes etc for a reason.

hawkelady · 26-02-2020 09:20PM

billyhead wrote: »

It was dark and wasn't visible. I didn't go to a doctor. I'm am hoping the pain subsides but the leg is very sore on my right side and when I fell I banged my shin off the bottom edge of the door frame so the shin is grazed and sore aswell.

Grazed shin !! Cop on you utter clown .. have a cup of tea and go to bed. Christ almighty. Bloody scroungers everywhere these days

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ThewhiteJesus · 26-02-2020 09:20PM

billyhead wrote: »

Were I slipped it wasn't gritted and this was the part of the platform from where you step into the train.

It’s a no, but I’m guessing this thread is a wind up,
If not you need to get a grip on reality

physioman · 26-02-2020 09:20PM

billyhead wrote: »

Came off the bike on Saturday. Wheel went from under me turning a sharp corner. I think there was grease on the road. Broke the wrist. Only good think is that it wasn't the dominant hand.

Your broken wrist wouldn't have helped in preventing you saving yourself from falling. Are you suing the council for grease on the road as Well!

26-02-2020 09:21PM

If you broke your hip or your leg I think you’d know by now. So you have no injuries , just the usual soreness you’d get if you fell anywhere. You could just have easily slipped on a path or your driveway. But because it’s at a train station the first thing you think of is claim for personal injuries.
THIS is exactly why our insurance costs are soaring out of control . If the general public look on a simple trip or slip as a means of claiming from someone we only have ourselves to blame for rising insurance costs.

So OP , next time that your train ticket jumps by 20% or you get a huge increase in your house or car insurance of if the local football club , community group, crèche, playcentre closes due to insurance hikes, please don’t complain.

Summer2020 · 26-02-2020 09:21PM

billyhead wrote: »

Wrong I am injured. Theres pain and grazes etc for a reason.

And yet you didn’t feel the need to attend a doctor for your “injuries”

RocketRaccoon · 26-02-2020 09:23PM

I'm completely and utterly fed up of the pathetic claim culture in this country. Hopefully the coronavirus does arrive and wipes a few of these morons/scroungers out.

Ferm001 · 26-02-2020 09:23PM

Started of with Leg and hip, now shin added in, by the time you get to the court steps what else will be included. You fell, sh*t happens, why should somebody other than yourself be to blame.

billyhead · 26-02-2020 09:25PM

No need for all the personal abuse. I was only asking. It's easy for keyboard warriors to say they wouldn't but I am sure if you fell on train platform that should be gritted as a duty of customer care and injured yourself you would probably think the same.

easypazz · 26-02-2020 09:25PM

You missed the inportant bit. Stay down until the ambulance arrives.

AndyBoBandy · 26-02-2020 09:26PM

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

I'm completely and utterly fed up of the pathetic claim culture in this country. Hopefully the coronavirus does arrive and wipes a few of these morons/scroungers out.

I hope China is prepared for the onslaught of claims that will be lodged against them....

Pinch Flat · 26-02-2020 09:26PM

How much do you think it'll take to make the pain go away OP? Three or four numbers?

easypazz · 26-02-2020 09:27PM

billyhead wrote: »

No need for all the personal abuse. I was only asking. It's easy for keyboard warriors to say they wouldn't but I am sure if you fell on train platform that should be gritted as a duty of customer care and injured yourself you would probably think the same.

Why should it be gritted?

Footpaths are not gritted.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 26-02-2020 09:28PM

billyhead wrote: »

I slipped on ice while about to embark on a train this morning. The platform wasn't fully gritted. I hurt my leg and hip. Nothing broken I hope and think. Would I have grounds for a claim against Irish rail.

Boo hoo sore leg.

“Can I claim?”

It’s people like you who fück everything up for the rest of us. Suck it up and on the next cold morning look out for ice.

Baby01032012 · 26-02-2020 09:28PM

Thought this was after hours.

Sound like you are under 18 so you’d need to take a case through your parents.

Doesn’t sound like you reported it immediately to staff at the station or went to your GP so you’ve no evidence to support your claim.

So grow a pair and grow up

RocketRaccoon · 26-02-2020 09:29PM

billyhead wrote: »

No need for all the personal abuse. I was only asking. It's easy for keyboard warriors to say they wouldn't but I am sure if you fell on train platform that should be gritted as a duty of customer care and injured yourself you would probably think the same.

No I wouldn't. I'd be embarrassed I fell, it wouldn't even enter my mind to consider a claim against anyone.

26-02-2020 09:30PM

billyhead wrote:

Were I slipped it wasn't gritted and this was the part of the platform from where you step into the train.

Do you have witnesses? Did you take photos showing the this particular area wasn't gritted?

AndyBoBandy · 26-02-2020 09:30PM

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

No I wouldn't. I'd be embarrassed I fell, it wouldn't even enter my mind to consider a claim against anyone.

And I’d hope to fcuk no one saw me!!

Slipped on ice train platform

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