Royal Mail disses runaway post van man

Compensation

If the guy had been sitting in a car and the runaway van had hit him. then he would doubtless be due for some compensation. If he had suffered any losses due to time off work, torn clothing, etc. then that would all be included in an insurance claim.

As he was a pedestrian, evidently without personal injury insurance, he has no alternative but to sue for uninsured losses.

Regardless of this guy's case, the P.O. have a duty of care and should be held accountable for their negligence by the HSE or similar. I fail to see how they can deny their liability. Actually, that's not true. I can see. It's their policy to deny liability until they are led by the nose to it.

Now, there's a lovely image!

Re Lee

But in todays society if you try and stop said pram and fail, knock the pram over and injuring said baby, you will be sued yourself, or possibly added to sex offenders register for trying to kidnap a baby you sic peado :)

It would be nice to READ THE BLOODY ARTICLE!

Unfortunately there is a company that thinks so bloody little of the prople reading El reg, that it sees fit to put it's BLOODY SHOCKWAVE ADVERT on top of part of the text and doesn't bother to give it a CLOSE option.

Who else but bloody Microsoft in it's server room ad?

On the other hand, El Reg could have been a sight more aware whast they were carrying.

@Too many RETARDS can't read.

If you read the local rag version that was published yesterday and not just The Register version you'll notice this intriguing statement from Mr Moore;

"It wasn't going very fast but there was a parked car it would have hit."

So, judging by his own remarks from his own words, no-one was ever in any danger. No matter how unpredictably pedestrians move.

technology angle

Long ago, a then roommate hopped out of his car without setting the handbrake. He got just enough steps away that he couldn't quite catch up as it rolled gently toward his girlfriend's car. Another roommie who saw the incident (say 10 mph, bent metal only) commended its comedic qualities but alas I didn't get to see it; there were no cell phones to whip out & record with.

The moral of the story: if a vehicle is rolling toward a parked car, with no prospect of injury to persons, don't skin yourself jumping in, get a video and post it to You Tube so the rest of us can enjoy it.

Money grabbing old git

Hate to say it but am on the side of RM here.

It should have been others that contacted them demanding he be rewarded not him going to his solicitor and instructing him/her to write to Royal Mail asking for compensation (and I would probably be one of them)

I have a lot of time for older people but not the ones whose only motivation for doing anything is compensation.

If anyone high up in RM is reading this, don't pay this self centred old git.

C'Mon

People seem to think he is demanding compensation for stopping the van, but the Reg article indicates he had a broken rib, and presumably other injuries. So he stopped a run away van and was injured whilst doing it. The runaway van was the responsibility of the PO. Surely that would be worth compensation?

Hero?

Hero? What was on Superman's last wage slip?

He is taking the piss in asking them a letter via a lawyer.

I wonder how something like this would stand up in a court of law though?

reward

I think people actually trying to help should be commended and rewarded.

they should look at the average cost of a lawsuit of that van slamming into a car killing 1 or more occupants or seriously harming them, then give him a small cut of it.

Oh hang they couldnt give a shit because they're insurance would pay.

Personally if i was the driver i would take him out for a decent lunch / dinner for saving my job !!